Three months ago, five gifted students from St. Anne-Pacelli Catholic School started sacrificing after-school time and Saturdays to come up with a winning project idea that would combat a problem in ...

Plastic bags. Plastic forks. Plastic straws. All are non-biodegradable, single-use plastics that you can’t traditionally recycle—meaning that they inevitably end up in our seemingly never-ending waste ...

Discover how plastic bottles can be transformed into 3D printing filament. This process involves converting PET plastic bottles into long ribbons that are fed through a heated nozzle to produce ...

GPS-outfitted bottles float among other trash in the Marsh Creek Watershed Scientists in Raleigh have launched plastic bottles containing GPS systems into local creeks to study litter and how waste ...

Chip provider PragmatIC has completed an eight-week pilot of Near Field Communication (NFC) RFID technology to track recyclable beverage containers from stores to the point of recycling. The company ...

In Jiangxi, China, a teacher partnered with students to construct a rocket featuring two stages, each made from ordinary plastic bottles and launched using the pressure generated by water. The ...

An ambitious project at UC Berkeley aims to take plastic and break it down to create new plastic. Scientists at Berkeley said they have discovered a new way to vaporize plastic bottles and bags. What ...

Notre Dame's Innovation Lab is back with more fun experiments and projects anyone can do at home, with just a few simple tools and steps. All you need is two plastic bottles, one filled with water and ...

The goal is to amaze, educate, and inspire viewers. The Treehugger editorial team is a diverse group of experts—with advanced degrees, professional experience, published books, and more—whose ...

Natives of Nkpomkpo- Umuneri, Ugwunani in Aku Diewa, Igbo-Etiti local government area of Enugu State, have been handed over a state-of-the-art South East ...