Engineers at MIT have recycled "dirty plastic into building products for homes that are lighter, more durable, and sustainable." ...

Archaeologists have long reconstructed past civilizations from broken pots, discarded tools and buried middens of everyday waste. If someone thousands of years from now digs through the layers we are ...

Plastic is a useful and versatile material, but let’s face it: it’s a massive environmental problem. Virtually every piece of plastic ever created still exists in some form or another, whether it’s an ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photo Credit: iStock Globally, 496 million tons of plastic are produced each year and 267 million tons are wasted — or about the ...