A West Sacramento company wants to build a better bottle cap. It’s preparing to manufacture them by the billions.

For years, we’ve been able to recycle plastic bottle tops in our workshop, but the bottles themselves have been a challenge. PET plastic doesn't melt like HDPE, making it tricky to process. Thanks to ...

S&L Recycling opened a location in Los Molinos in 2022 and added another in Red Bluff this month -- now they will open a ...

Every year, the world produces around 400 million metric tons of plastic and generates about 280 million metric tons of ...

Instead of tossing plastic bottles in the recycling bin, consider saving them to build a one-of-a-kind furniture piece that's ...

Learn essential facts about plastic pollution's global impact and discover practical solutions every student can adopt to ...

A research team has successfully engineered a novel PET hydrolase enzyme, PET2-21M, achieving a remarkable improvement in the ...

What started with one bench in a village is now a movement across India. Using stuffed plastic bottles as bricks, communities ...

Primary school pupils have created a colourful and educational mural made from 4,000 bottle caps to raise awareness of the importance of recycling.

Besides their good habits of buying items with minimal packaging, their city offers comprehensive curbside recycling and composting — and it’s strongly expected that everyone know how to use them ...