Teen sisters created Bye Bye Plastic Bags, to secure a ban on the bags across Bali—in an island chain ranked second for ocean-born plastic pollution.
Innovative machines accept plastic waste in exchange for adding money to fare cards in Istanbul: encouraging recycling while reducing garbage in landfills.
These Dutch designers have come up with an ingenious replacement for plastic – and it will actually be able to suck tons of CO2 out of the air.
Mardi Gras may be fun, but it generates thousands of tons of trash every year. Thankfully, these biodegradable beads might make the party a little greener.
After successfully piloting the roads in Asia, the company has started laying the recycled plastic roads in America as well.
With billions of plastic bags not being recycled, researchers have discovered a way to turn them into anodes for lithium batteries.
The researchers behind the technology that turns plastic into fuel are looking for investors to implement the process on a mass-market scale.
The chair is made out of recycled materials that were all sourced from fishing companies within a 12-mile radius of the architectural studio.
The ice cream brand has been using sustainable packaging since 2009 - but over the course of the next year, they're ditching plastic for good.
The initiative is part of the beer company's partnership with Parley for the Oceans, which has already resulted in hundreds of other eco-friendly projects.
After she watched her father eat olive pits, this Turkish scientist has created an ingenious biodegradable alternative to plastic.
Instead of throwing their bubble wrap into the garbage, this university is recycling the packaging by using it as anti-stress therapy for their students.
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Though it was originally hailed as a controversial ban, the initiative has resulted in an 80% drop in plastic bag consumption across the nation.
The Women's Institute issued an ultimatum to grocers in the UK to reduce the over-abundance of plastic packaging of produce. Now, 'Naked' cucumbers have been approved for display in the Co-op stores .
Scientists have developed a new fiber from fruits like pineapples and bananas that is almost as strong as Kevlar, the fiber used in bulletproof vests. The new "nono-cellulose" fiber will help bring in an era of plastics that are stronger, lighter (which will improve fuel efficiency in cars), and more environmentally friendly than those in use today.
Perhaps we can take a lesson from the innovative entrepreneurs of India when it comes to recycling plastics. Alka is the inventor of a process that clears our environment of plastic waste, creates a million jobs in waste management, adds useful, profitable bi-products, like fuel, to our economy and makes India a technology leader in taming plastics.
A ban on microbeads, which add to plastic pollution and endanger the food chain, has easily passed through Congress.
This is the most genius idea to come out of the kitchen since silly straws.
Plastic shopping bags, an abundant source of litter on land and at sea, can be converted into diesel, natural gas and other useful petroleum products, researchers report. The conversion produces significantly more energy than it requires and results in transportation fuels – diesel, for example – that can be blended with existing ultra-low-sulfur diesels and biodiesels.
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