TL;DR: Texas inventor Ivan Arbouzov built a countertop device that squishes your grocery bags into bricks for recycling. It costs $200 upfront plus $50/month. Yes, really. Remember when everyone was ...

UCSF Health tests soft plastic compactor in pharmacy, diverting 372 pounds from landfill in 90 days with network rollout ...

Single-use plastic might just be the most insane act of collective self-harm humanity commits every single day. Each year, the United Nations Environment Programme estimates that we discard a ...

"Microplastic particles are currently found almost everywhere—in water, food, fish, and even breast milk," says Artūras Torkelis, a Ph.D. student at Kaunas University of Technology (KTU). He ...

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 ...

The use of plastic has skyrocketed over the past decade. Recent statistics reveal that in 2021, each person in the European Union (EU) generated an average of 36 kg of plastic packaging waste.