New recycling process converts plastic waste into useful chemicals using only water and oxygen
Researchers developed a catalyst-free recycling method that uses only water and oxygen to break down durable plastics such…
The Fix for Food Waste Comes With a Major Catch
Between 30% and 40% of the U.S. food supply goes uneaten, according to the Environmental Protection Agency. Most…
This New Process Turns Plastic Trash Into Clean Fuel Instead of Pollution
Power Shift is Ellyn Lapointe’s ongoing Gizmodo series that explores advancements in green technology, with a focus on…
Microplastics have reached one of Earth’s most isolated ecosystems: Indian Ocean animals carried up to 14.7 times more particles than Pacific specimens
Life on Earth isn’t just about the flora and fauna anymore, microplastics have entered the equation deep enough…
Great waste in the Great Lakes
More than 40 million people in the United States and Canada depend on the Great Lakes for drinking…
Great waste in the Great Lakes
More than 40 million people in the United States and Canada depend on the Great Lakes for drinking…
As plastics clog the Great Lakes, industry downplays dangers
ERIE, Pa. — On an overcast day in this Great Lakes city, semitrucks pulled alongside railcars parked at…
Great waste in the Great Lakes
More than 40 million people in the United States and Canada depend on the Great Lakes for drinking…
Scientists tap sunlight to make clean hydrogen fuel from waste plastic
Researchers at the University of Adelaide have proposed a roadmap to solve the crises of plastic pollution and…
As a Plastic Waste Plant Violates Pollution Rules, Its Owner Makes the Case for a Second Location
Belching smoke from a new plastic waste processing plant in central Ohio has stirred opposition to an even…
The ‘mudcrabs’ volunteering to remediate Sydney’s Cooks River from toxic pollution
Scurrying about the banks of Sydney’s Cooks River, an army of volunteers known as the ‘mudcrabs’ is working…
An Embarrassing Mistake May Have Skewed Microplastics Research All Along
Earth’s worrying pall of microplastics—recorded by scientists practically everywhere, across our planet’s oceans, aloft in clouds above Mount…