For more than two years, the UN member states have been trying to agree on a plastics treaty that includes globally binding measures against plastic pollution. In August, negotiations to reach an ...

In a landfill, a plastic bottle can take more than a thousand years to break down. But a new process can transform polyethylene plastic in days, using bacteria to eat the waste and then turn it into a ...

Binghamton PhD student Tianzheng Liu, left, and Department of Biomedical Engineering Professor Sha Jin have developed a method to turn food waste into biodegradable plastic. According to the U.S.

TIRUCHY: Machines in most micro compost centres (MCCs) in Tiruchy city are facing frequent machine breakdowns every year and are operating with inadequate maint ...

Students at a Birmingham university helped to solve a 'long-standing problem' at the NHS. More than 1.4 billion disposable ...