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 ...

A firsthand look at an innovative program to improve learning, encourage environmental action and empower women in Côte d’Ivoire. UNICEF USA Chief Program Officer Darla Silva visits with students at ...

A recycling program that turns discarded plastic into construction-grade building blocks will become a sustained fixture in Tucson after City Council approved a 4-year contract Tuesday that makes ...

Fresh research is showing how plastic waste could be recycled to make life-saving medication. The study examined a method of using chemicals to break down polyethylene terephthalate, or PET. PET is ...

Every day, millions of tons of waste plastic are deposited in landfills, on the sides of our roadways and into the ocean, polluting our environment, adding to greenhouse gas emissions and killing ...

Graduate student RJ Conk adjusts a reaction chamber in which mixed plastics are degraded into the reusable building blocks of new polymers. A new chemical process can essentially vaporize plastics ...

Imagine taking heaps and heaps of earth-polluting, unusable plastic waste and actually transforming it into something constructive? Plastic pollution is a proliferating and increasingly overwhelming ...

Why it matters: All that packaging we've treated as disposable may finally be reborn. Researchers have cracked the code for turning plastic back into the building blocks to make new plastics. It could ...