San Carlos nonprofit turns hard-to-recycle plastic into useful new products

Less than 10% of plastic ever gets recycled. The rest ends up in landfills, where it eventually breaks down into ...
El Cronista

A builder recycled plastic bottles with sand and turned them into bricks to build a house. Five years later, he has already built nearly a dozen homes

The German Andreas Froese developed the idea in Honduras after seeing the buildup of plastic waste at local celebrations. The ...

A 90-foot recycled plastic bridge reached Scotland in six pieces and was built in four days

A recycled plastic bridge crossed Scotland's River Tweed near Edinburgh in 2011. Axion International manufactured the bridge ...

Everyday Recycling Mistakes You're Making—And What You Should Do Instead

It's actually okay to recycle that greasy pizza box.

This Hawaii company is making boats from volcanic rock and recycled plastic instead of traditional materials

A Hawaii-based company is taking a unique approach to boat manufacturing by combining recycled plastic with volcanic ...
CU Boulder News & Events

Think all that plastic is being recycled? Think again

A lot of ‘recycled’ plastic is being burned overseas—and causing widespread pollution linked to health problems Picture a pile of trash the size of Manhattan and taller than one and a half Empire ...
Grist

Using ‘recycled plastic’ in construction materials may not be a great idea after all

Last month, the American Chemistry Council, a petrochemical industry trade group, sent out a newsletter highlighting a major new report on what it presented as a promising solution to the plastic ...

In 2025, a UK nuclear waste site replaced wooden railway sleepers with recycled plastic to make its railway more sustainable

A railway at a UK nuclear waste site has gained an unusual new feature: sleepers made largely from recycled plastic. In 2025, ...