Stop tossing your veggie scraps! Store them in a freezer bag to make flavorful homemade stock for soups, stocks and stews.

A NASA-backed experiment shows how engineered microbes can convert discarded water bottles into edible protein.

Angulo and Deputy Opinion Editor Sadie Harlan argue the best way to consume a soda, pop or whatever alternative name is given ...

Chemists at Oak Ridge National Laboratory have turned polyethylene, the plastic used in shopping bags and cutting boards, into gasoline- and diesel-range fuel by dissolving it in a bath of molten ...

Finished plastic bottles and empty snack bags. Plastic recycling involves collecting used materials and using them as raw ...

Plastic is everywhere. Tens of millions of tons of plastic enter the environment each year. Plastic is accumulating in human bodies, and could be associated with cardiovascular ailments and ...

A temporary liquid formed during manufacturing could help make promising new solar cells more efficient and longer lasting.

Blocked Middle East oil shipments upended supply chains and prices for fossil fuel-based plastics, offering yet another ...

In the Bolivian Altiplano, where rising fuel costs are threatening farmers' livelihoods, local resident Etson Machaca built a ...

Plastic pollution goes far beyond visible waste, affecting wildlife, human health, ecosystems, and the climate in complex ...

Researchers at the US Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory have developed a new way to transform polyethylene, one of the world's most common plastics, into gasoline- and diesel-like ...

Etson Machaca’s small plant in Bolivia’s Altiplano produces fuel from waste, reducing his farming costs after the government ended diesel subsidies.