Public volunteers and navy divers gathered on Saturday under the 2009 Clean Up the World dive campaign in Aqaba to clean the area. Volunteers removed around one tonne...

Plastic that conducts electricity and metal that weighs no more than a feather? It sounds like an upside-down world. Yet researchers have succeeded in making plastics...

A US company is taking plastics recycling to another level - turning them back into the oil they were made from, and gas. All that is needed, claims Global Resource...

Two disturbing articles I found from the Independent about the current state of plastic dumping in the ocean To summarize, scientist are finding random assortment of...

What if plastic wasn’t made from oil or natural gas? What if it was made from bacteria? Would it be safer for the environment? Would it be safer for us? What if the...

Get ready to finally chuck all those newspapers and books that you’ve been carrying because Plastic Logic has introduced a full-page sized ebook reader that doesn’t...

About three years back, Madhur Mehrotra began to feel the bulge in his wallet. Ten credit cards, 12 loyalty cards and three ATM cards had created a serious weight and...

Could it be too late to save the global ocean, which covers 70% of the earth’s surface?

Plastic is a cancer on the environment and yet we just can’t get enough of it. Just try to get through one day without plastic – it’s impossible.

Please see this slideshow and remind yourself of the havoc on wildlife and our environment that plastic bags can do.

Answer is simple, use those reusable bags!Less than 1% of plastic bags are recycled each year and it costs more to recycle a plastic bag than to make a new one.

Don’t microwave plastic containers that aren’t listed as microwavable, and throw them out if they’re damaged. Some consumer groups suggest not heating...

There are literally hundreds of different ways you can reuse a plastic soda bottle. Just remember to thoroughly wash the bottle of all its liquid so you won’t...

It’s pretty much common knowledge that plastic bags take 1000 years to decompose, if they do at all, but that fact just wasn’t good enough for 16-year-old Daniel...

The UN Environment Program estimates that there are 46,000 pieces of plastic litter in every square mile of ocean, and a swirling vortex of trash twice the size of...

They come in all sizes, shapes and with pictures of movie stars on their sides but Polythene bags or kaveera, as they are locally known are currently the number one...

Read to know about chemicals entering our systems thro’ use of plastic in daily life.

It is estimated that Americans will drink more than 30 billion single-serving bottles of water this year. Since these bottles are non-returnable, two million tons worth...

# Plastic pollutants are disrupting the ecology of the world’s waterways, creating massive ocean ‘dead zones’ where aquatic life cannot survive. #...