On World Environment Day 2025, plastic pollution is taking centre stage. The drive to end plastic pollution is under the ...

I melted down HDPE plastic and recycled it into a DIY Electric Guitar! HDPE. Plastic is a common type that can be melted at around 280 degrees Fahrenheit. After cleaning and sorting the plastic I ...

Plastic bag bans may not be the best way to keep plastics out of the ocean, argues Todd Myers. Jay Karr Island Packet We don’t want plastic in the ocean. Most plastic degrades slowly ...

Policies aimed at curbing the use of single-use plastic bags have sometimes accomplished the opposite of their intentions, a new study has found. When two Texas cities prohibited stores from ...

Among the plastic in your house might be an orange-colored hard laundry detergent bottle and a squeezable clear ketchup bottle. Come recycling day, you might put them on the curb in a blue bin or ...

California is banning single-use plastic bags at grocery stores and other retailers, after an earlier ban was blamed for making the waste problem worse. Here, a worker pulls a plastic bag from a ...

According to the National Environment Agency (NEA), paper, plastic, glass and metal items can be placed in the now-familiar blue recycling ... bottles made from high-density polyethylene (HDPE).

The state led the nation in 2014 by banning single-use plastic bags, but a loophole actually led to more plastic waste. By Soumya Karlamangla Reporting from San Francisco Paper or paper?

California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill banning plastic bags from grocery store checkouts, including the thicker, "reusable" bags that stores switched to after an earlier ban. “We deserve a ...