The majority of the 300 million tons of plastic produced every year isn’t recycled, and recycling that does happen typically happens at an industrial scale in factories using equipment that can cost ...

A Dutch inventor has helped create an enormous device that removed nearly 20,000 lbs of plastic out of the Pacific Ocean last week. The team launched the device in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch in ...

Makers, engineers and hobbyists who would like to automatically manufacture a variety of different size plastic gears you might be interested in a unique machine built using a little Arduino hardware, ...

A Japanese inventor has created a machine suitable for home use that can turn plastic waste into fuel, a technological feat that could give us something to do with all the grocery sacks piling up ...

Thatch roofs are a traditional building technology in Ecuador for good reason – they keep a home cool and the reeds can be sourced locally. Unfortunately, thatch has become much harder to acquire as ...

‘The Age of Plastic’ was an album by the 1980s British new wave group, The Buggles – a point to which we shall return! More pertinently, it is a term often used to describe the remarkable rise of this ...

Backyard plastic recycling plants could be step closer to reality, with a group of Monash University engineering students creating a portable unit that can fit on the back of a ute. Monash University ...

Klean is one of Malaysia’s most ambitious startups seeking to disrupt the plastic waste sector. Finalists of sustainability innovation competition The Liveability Challenge in 2018, Klean is now ...