The next time you take a bag of plastic bottles to the recycler, you might be providing the building material for a new home ...

If you’ve been thinking about lowering your impact on the planet, now’s the perfect time. It’s officially Plastic Free July, a month where millions of people pledge to reduce their plastic waste. If ...

As L.A. deals with a homelessness crisis, officials have been looking to unconventional ways to quickly house people transitioning out of encampments. One new building technology using plastic is ...

For the average person, trying to avoid plastics can feel overwhelming—and maybe pointless. Our writer asked two experts how they navigate our plastic-filled world.

In the mid-twentieth century, back when colonizing the solar system seemed imminent, people decided to save money by building homes out of plastic. You can see the results here. Some are ...

Plastic is everywhere, and in some ways, that’s not a bad thing. Its use in stents and intravenous bags make surgeries less invasive and more sterile, and plastic sheeting, gloves, masks and water ...

To help the environment by cutting down on non-compostable plastics, many people have begun saying no to plastic straws and are bringing reusable bags to the grocery store instead of accepting new ...

- Plastic habitats - Around 435 million tonnes of plastic waste is produced globally each year, with about 22 million tonnes discarded in the environment, according to the Organisation for Economic ...

In Bogota, 700 tons of plastic is discarded daily, with only 100 tons of that recycled. But that’s all beginning to change, thanks to the work of architect Oscar Mendez. His company, Conceptos ...