Waste plastic pothole mix: Lab-made PET blend beats asphalt in strength tests; field trials still needed

A groundbreaking study from the University of Dodoma in Tanzania introduces an innovative pothole repair technique that ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Would You Eat a Cookie Made From Upcycled Plastic? Scientists Propose a New Way to Deal With Waste and Provide Food in Extreme Environments

Researchers may have addressed three problems with one stone—or rather, one cookie. On August 24, a team presented µBites (pronounced “microbites”), edible cookies made from upcycled plastic, at the ...
Earth.com

Plastic pollution is a much bigger problem than the waste we can see

Plastic pollution goes far beyond visible waste, affecting wildlife, human health, ecosystems, and the climate in complex ...

Plastic waste recycling: leftover non-recyclable waste? Let's turn it into roads.

Properly sort and recycle plastic waste collected from households.And they lived happily ever after.……Or so it seems, that is ...
Nature

Plastic Waste Recycling Technologies and Applications articles from across Nature Portfolio

At present, only two groups of plastic, polyethylene (PET) and high-density polyethylene (HDPE) among seven plastic groups are widely and easily recycled. However, the majority of plastic wastes are ...

In 2016, Cumbria began trialling waste-plastic roads; a year later, an A7 project reused 500,000 bottles or 800,000 bags; five years later, the trials were deemed succ…

Kingstown Road and Scotland Road form one of the main routes into Carlisle, and by autumn 2017 they had a new skin. Some of ...

Great waste in the Great Lakes: How plastic pollution is clogging our waters

More than 40 million depend on the Great Lakes for drinking water. Yet plastic pollution in the lake water isn’t regulated, ...