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6,000 milk bottle road in China: How plastic waste found a strange second life in Shanghai- In 2021, Shanghai used 6,000 milk bottles to fight plastic waste; the result became China's 1st plastic road, turning hard-to-recycle bottles into useful paving material
- In 2025, Washington State researchers recycled wind-turbine blade waste into plastic; up to 70% of recovered GFRP was reused, while 83.5% of the resin matrix was degraded
- Accelerating Plastics Circularity: Turning Ambition into Scalable Action | Industry RoundtableIndustry experts convened to emphasize the need for advancing plastics circularity throughout India and the Asia Pacific region. They ident...02 Sep, 2026, 07.04 PM IST
- Earlier this year, 1,124 wind-turbine blades were sitting in a Wyoming landfill. Now, a Missouri cement plant has given 7,000 more a second life, offering a different ending for retired renewable-energy equipmentWyoming buried 1,124 wind turbine blades. Now, a Missouri cement plant is giving more than 7,000 retired blades a second life. The contrast...21 Aug, 2026, 09.34 PM IST
- Earlier this year, Virginia Tech researchers heated discarded PVC for 3 hours at 158°F. Today, the process can turn the hard-to-recycle plastic into industrial lubricant, offering a new use for the 40 million tons produced each yearVirginia Tech researchers have developed a new process for recycling discarded PVC plastic. This innovative method breaks down the polymer ...19 Aug, 2026, 08.35 PM IST
- Inspectors seize thousands of Diageo whisky, vodka bottles in food safety crackdownIndian inspectors seized approximately eighteen thousand boxes of Diageo liquor bottles. These bottles allegedly lacked required markings f...11 Aug, 2026, 01.11 PM IST
- New York crushed 5,000 discarded school toilets and lowered the porcelain into Jamaica Bay, creating foundations for new oyster reefsNew York City recycled nearly five thousand old toilets from public schools. This discarded porcelain became part of new oyster reef founda...04 Aug, 2026, 04.32 PM IST
- Fast fashion is about to get caught up in HormuzAs with the toilet-paper frenzy at the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, and drivers pre-emptively filling their tanks on reports of the US-I...20 Jul, 2026, 11.27 AM IST
- Many people throw away aluminum foil after cooking, but cleaning experts say it can also help remove water stains and restore a faucet's shineHard water leaves stubborn mineral rings around faucets, which are difficult to remove. A crumpled ball of aluminum foil acts as a gentle s...15 Jul, 2026, 03.44 PM IST
- 88% ‘hard-to-recycle’ plastic: PolyCycl’s bet on turning waste into valueIndia's plastic waste problem is being tackled by PolyCycl's innovative chemical recycling. The technology transforms difficult-to-recycle ...01 May, 2026, 10.58 AM IST
- California sues Exxon over global plastic pollutionA coalition of environmental groups including the Sierra Club filed a related lawsuit in that court against Exxon on Monday raising similar...23 Sep, 2024, 11.40 PM IST
- The reality of recycling is appalling. But we can fix it.Recycling has been called a "myth" and "beyond fixing" as we've learned that recyclables are being shipped overseas and dumped (true), are ...04 Dec, 2023, 09.41 AM IST
- To trash or not to trash: Futility of the recycling symbol and plastic conundrumThe unhelpful symbol is just one aspect of a recycling system that is far too confusing to be broadly effective.23 Apr, 2022, 02.45 PM IST
- Coke, Pepsi, Nestle top makers of plastic waste: ReportCoca-Cola, the world's largest soft drink maker, was the top waste producer, Greenpeace said, with Coke-branded plastic trash found in 40 o...09 Oct, 2018, 05.49 PM IST
- How India is trying to solve its plastics waste problemAs the plastic waste menace increases in scale around the world, scientists, entrepreneurs and engineers have begun to come up with solutio...05 Jun, 2018, 11.01 AM IST
- Coca Cola, Infosys, others pledge to beat plastic pollution in IndiaThe government is sensitising the issue on the occasion of the World Environment Day on June 5 with the theme 'Beat plastic pollution'.02 Jun, 2018, 05.58 PM IST
- Coca Cola, Infosys and others pledge to beat plastic pollution in India"We have pledged to recover and recycle one package for every single one that we put out in the market by 2030," Coca-Cola India and South ...02 Jun, 2018, 05.28 PM IST
- This startup's tech could be tipping point in our fight against plastic pollutionBanyan Nation is India's first vertically integrated plastics recycling company that uses proprietary plastics cleaning technology to produ...04 Jan, 2018, 03.42 PM IST
- Need to Evolve a Responsible 'Bag Policy'The initiatives taken, both by Wal-Mart and Progressive Bag Affiliates need to be replicated across the world, including India. Imposing a ...31 Oct, 2008, 01.05 AM IST
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