It could make things easier for consumers. Scientists make breakthrough that could revolutionize what happens to common waste ...

Over the past decade, it's come to light that plastic recycling is mostly bogus – essentially a marketing scheme crafted by the oil industry. (Raw plastic materials come from fossil fuel production.) ...

Eco-friendly and virtually free, this hack is a great way to save reuse plastic bottles for organizing multiple sets of shoes ...

Lego is forgoing one of its oil-free recycled plastic block prototypes after testing showed the material didn't cut down on carbon emissions. However, the toymaker isn't ditching the effort to make ...

London (CNN) — Lego has abandoned plans to make its famous bricks from recycled plastic bottles, saying that the manufacturing process would be more polluting than the current production of oil-based ...

I am not aware of bagasse being disposed of in land fills. It is generally burned at the sugar mill to provide the power required to run the sugar factory. In other cases it is used to make paper or ...

Throwing your plastic bottles in the recycling bin may make you feel good about yourself, or ease your guilt about your ...

In case you needed another reason to ditch bottled water, Earth.com just revealed one: It raises your blood pressure. According to Earth.com, a team from the Department of Medicine at Danube Private ...

TEPIC, Mexico (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Tens of thousands of empty plastic bottles could be filled with rubble and earth to build quake-resistant emergency shelters for people made homeless in ...

NEW YORK — Meg Robustelli had heard reports that a chemical in most plastic baby bottles could be dangerous, but she had not done anything about it. That's when her mother stepped in and bought her ...

Some island schools are selling almost 2,000 bottles of water a week - making an annual profit of £50,000. But schools also ...