It all started in 2014 when Dave Hakkens, then a student at the Eindhoven Design Academy, released his design for a plastic recycling machine to the world for free. The aim was to make plastic ...

Hundreds of millions of tons of plastic are produced globally every year. New research shows how that waste can be turned into something useful.

Scientists from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory are winners of the 2024 Gizmodo Science Fair for creating a plastic that can be infinitely recycled. Can you design a new type of plastic that ...

Plastic is one of the most durable materials humans have ever made. That durability has made it indispensable in medicine, ...

A green accounting method called “mass balance” certifies that something was manufactured with recycled plastic — just not necessarily much of the bottle making the claim. By Julie Creswell and Hiroko ...

Biodegradable plastics could help alleviate the plastic waste crisis that is polluting the environment and harming our health ...