Category "Waste"

In 2016, Japanese scientists discovered a bacterium that can break down PET plastic. Now, researchers from DTU will speed up the process to put plastic waste to use.

The world is beginning to understand the threat of global plastic waste, according to the renowned broadcaster Sir David Attenborough.

Indonesia has become a dumping ground for vast quantities of the world’s unwanted plastic since China banned imports of foreign plastic waste in 2017.

The new technology is expected to reduce our dependency on products made from petrochemicals.

Working with a few fashion friends Rachel Kelly designed patterns for three tote bags and started to put the recycled material to use.

Greenpeace calls for global action over nets, lines and traps that are deadly for marine life.

About 4.5 trillion cigarette filters are discarded every year, most containing cellulose acetate, a plastic that can take 10 years to biodegrade.

Without business and policy model changes, resource use will more than double from current levels to 190 billion tonnes by 2060 and far exceed our planetary boundaries.

Chip[s] Board is a biodegradable alternative to MDF that is made from non-food-grade industrial potato waste.

Global plastic consumption is gargantuan. It needs to be discussed in terms of hundreds of years and billions of tons. But to most, those digits don't mean anything.