The day state officials handed Riley a large black plastic trash bag that smelled like lemon is seared into the former Oregon foster youth’s mind. “I will never forget my first trash bag,” Riley ...

Across many urban neighborhoods in the Global South, plastic waste is being used not just as something to throw away but as a practical source of fuel. With clean energy still out of reach for ...

COPENHAGEN, Denmark, September 15, 2025 (ENS) – Scientists at the University of Copenhagen have found a way to convert plastic waste into a climate solution for efficient and sustainable capture of ...

Plastics are inescapable in our daily lives. The vast amounts of plastic garbage heaped in landfills and in the environment, however, are as problematic as the plastics are useful. A research team has ...

The New Economy Collaborative of Southwestern Pennsylvania announced a $62.7 million Build Back Better grant toward workforce development in Southwestern Pennsylvania. Follow Technical.ly’s coverage ...

How does garbage shape our world? That’s the driving question behind “Castaway: The Afterlife of Plastic,” on view at Harvard University’s Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology in Cambridge, ...

Entrepreneur Charlie Rudkin-Wilson recycles household plastic into homewares that have featured in Vogue. Rudkin-Wilson wants to "change the perception of plastic waste and to make it seem like a ...

The open ocean has new inhabitants ...

The longer the conflict in the Middle East continues, the deeper the uncertainty about its economic impact. The effects of ...

The world is awash in garbage, and much of that garbage is plastic. The evidence is everywhere. Just look at the growing, plastic-dominated mountains at the Albany or Colonie landfills. Or glance at ...