PET is one of the most commonly used plastics. It’s usually transparent and found in food packaging, including water and ...

On a diet of oil or gas, he can produce all sorts of stuff; from washing machines, to wigs, to waterslides. There are loads of different types of plastic. Plastic fibres can even be used to make ...

Many plastic packaging materials are currently difficult to recycle. In an effort to change this, TNO is researching new circular packaging solutions. If we ultimately want to make packaging 100% ...

Raffi Schieir, director of Prevented Ocean Plastic, discusses creating a more competitive recycled plastic market by ...

A version of this story appears in the August 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine. Around tables strewn with Exacto knives, bowls, cutting boards, tape, funnels, and bags of hemp powder ...