Nigeria Startup News reported that Coca-Cola partnered with OceanHub Africa to form Call for Bold Ideas in Plastic Circularity, a cross-continent challenge for scientists, innovators, and startups to ...

Past leaders have tried and failed to rehabilitate the Pasig River, but President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. is taking on the task with renewed enthusiasm.

An African youth-led environmental organisation, U-Recycle Initiative Africa, has launched an innovative comic book aimed at tackling plastic pollution and promoting sustainable behaviour among young ...

Instead of treating plastic purely as waste, new research shows that it can be transformed into something useful — acetic ...

Senegal and Cape Verde have launched a joint project to improve the control, management and reduction of plastic waste, the Senegalese Ministry of Environment and Ecological Transition announced on ...

Jacob Rognhaug As Europe faces mounting pressure to meet its 2030 climate targets, all eyes are on the technologies helping to cut emissions at ...

New research has found that a staggering 220 million tonnes of plastic waste is set to be generated in 2024, marking a 7.11% increase since 2021. The latest study, by charity EA Earth Action, and ...

Right now, an estimated 130 million metric tons of plastic waste enters the air, water, soil, and human bodies every year. By 2040, that number will jump to 280 million metric tons—about a garbage ...

Plastics are valued for their durability, but that quality also makes them difficult to break down. Tiny pieces of debris known as microplastics persist in soil, water and air and threaten ecosystems ...

Yale researchers unveiled a 3D-printed carbon column reactor that can convert 66% of polyethylene plastic into fuel chemicals without costly catalysts. The breakthrough addresses major efficiency and ...

For those of you over a certain age, you may remember this now famous line from the movie, The Graduate, delivered by the character Mr. McGuire to Benjamin Braddock, played by the actor Justin Hoffman ...