Dismayed by the plastic waste strewn over their home island of Bali, sisters Melati and Isabel Wijsen have channelled Ted Talks and international conferences in raising global awareness through a ...

Since COVID-19, even drinks bottles made of recycled plastic – the most commonly recycled plastic item – have become less viable. The recycled plastic to make them is 83% to 93% more expensive than ...

In 2023, Republican state lawmakers slipped a provision into the state budget prohibiting local governments from banning “auxiliary containers,” things like plastic bags and Styrofoam cups and coolers ...

Trillions of nurdles, the tiny building blocks of plastic products, enter our waterways each and every year. How do they get there?

Reifenhäuser, a leader in extrusion technology, has launched its NEXT initiative at K 2025 — a suite of artificial ...

While plastic may look low-cost on the shelf, its true price is staggering. Researchers estimate that plastic is responsible ...

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Brown’s goal was to turn one of the world’s biggest environmental problems into a sustainable energy solution. Using a ...

Professor Marcus Foston, of Washington University St. Louis, helped develop a new process using byproducts from soybean oil, ...

Abstract: The quadratic multiple knapsack problem (QMKP) is a well-studied problem in operations research. This problem involves selecting a subset of items that maximizes the linear and quadratic ...

A chance encounter with plastic waste on a tropical beach sparked a deep investigation into what those fragments mean for ...

October 6, 2025 / California never misses a chance to make a statement or a lawsuit. So when Los Angeles County went after ...