If selected, participants could receive a share of up to $120,000 in funding to support early-stage development. Coca-Cola announces ambitious $120,000 challenge to tackle ongoing crisis: 'Aimed at ...

The global plastic crisis has long been a ticking time bomb, but now, it seems, a revolution is underway. One company, Corsair Group International, is rewriting the narrative of waste management with ...

Upcycling technology company MacroCycle has accumulated $6.5 million in seed funding to commercialize its efforts to keep plastic waste out of landfills. The Cambridge, Massachusetts-based startup, ...

Solutions to the plastic waste crisis are often pitched using words that can skew value judgments, new research argues. The paper, authored by the Sustainable Materials Innovation Hub at The ...

Scientists engineer E. coli to convert PET plastic bottle waste into L-DOPA, a primary treatment for Parkinson’s disease.

With 430 million tons of plastic waste generated annually and less than 10% of it recycled, the plastic crisis is out of control. Thankfully, HIRO Technologies is creating a new path forward, powered ...

Although the need for effective waste management has been recognized for decades, human and environmental health challenges associated with plastic waste are not only growing but also accelerating.

The CMA CGM Group, a global player in sea, land, air and logistics solutions, in partnership with social enterprise, The Plastic Flamingo Philippines (The Plaf), donated 500 school chairs made from 10 ...

Community-led research from UCSB’s Benioff Ocean Science Laboratory spans three years, four continents and eight countries to reveal the scale of river plastic waste and offer solutions to stop it at ...

Plastic waste is becoming an increasing problem, with 50 million tonnes of single-use plastic being produced each year. Plastics are used in the packaging of food and drinks.

Researchers at the University of Edinburgh has developed a process to convert waste plastic bottles into a drug to treat Parkinson’s disease.