Design Academy Eindhoven graduate Shahar Livne has created a clay-like material using discarded plastic, which she envisions as a valuable commodity that future civilisations will mine for....
A team in Kenya is using recycled plastic planks to build the boat, which they hope to sail to South Africa when it is finished....
About 10kg of waste is collected for each piece of eyewear, with most of what is left over recycled and used in other ways....
The first Welsh zero waste shop, selling food free of plastic packaging, is to open on the site of a former pub....
What are oxo-degradable plastics?...
'Poly-Mer' is the world’s first recycled plastic boat, made from 99% recycled plastic waste. Poly-Mer is part of a new wave of Plastic Fishing trips taking place in and around London's Docklands to fish plastic out of the river....
As a country, as a species, as individuals we need to stop consuming single use plastics....
A new shelter design built of recycled plastics may provide more humane living conditions for refugees....
We are now looking to push Phillip Hammond to include a charge on coffee cups in his Autumn budget that's coming up in November....
Wetherspoons pubs are banning the use of plastic drinking straws, in a bid to help the environment....