Watch how water bottles are made from start to finish. Watch as plastic waste is shredded, melted, and transformed into raw plastic material. Follow each step as this plastic is shaped into tubes and ...

New research has detected high levels of flame retardants in some toys, kitchen utensils and other household items made from recycled black plastic. But the potential health effects remain unclear.

By Hiroko Tabuchi Scientists have found plastic pollution almost everywhere they have looked. In clouds. On Mount Everest. In Arctic snow. Now, for the first time, tiny plastic particles have been ...

Consumers want something to be done about plastic pollution. Recycling is something. Therefore oil companies, manufacturers and retailers are doing it. The trouble is, many of these initiatives ...

A 13-YEAR-OLD girl was raped by three men who lured her from Hammersmith tube stop to a flat before the horror attack. Paul Maxwell, 24, Kayon Bola, 29, and Jeremiah Jackson, 24, found the girl ...

Over the past decade, it's come to light that plastic recycling is mostly bogus – essentially a marketing scheme crafted by the oil industry. (Raw plastic materials come from fossil fuel production.) ...

DAVENPORT, Iowa (KWQC) - A woman is facing charges after a witness saw her strike a subdued man with a plastic tube, Davenport police say. Fifty-four-year-old Tonja Votroubek is charged with ...

We’ll need clear management strategies and policies to cut plastic consumption and improve waste disposal. Doing nothing means microplastics will keep building up, and up, and up.

Scientists have developed a "self-digesting plastic", which, they say, could help reduce pollution. Polyurethane is used in everything from phone cases to trainers, but is tricky to recycle and ...

All items may be inspected for compliance. For your convenience, tubes and life jackets are available for rent within the park. Visitors are welcome to bring their own tubes or rent from outside ...