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Single-use water bottles could soon charge your devices instead of polluting landfills. Researchers have developed new methods to upcycle poly(ethylene terephthalate ...

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Plastic upcycling efficiently converts plastics to valuable commodity chemicals while using less of the precious metal ruthenium. The method could recycle waste plastic pollution into useful products, ...

Each year, billions of single-use plastic bottles end up in landfills or oceans. That waste problem keeps growing. Now, a new scientific breakthrough suggests those same bottles could help power your ...

Two types of common plastic can be turned into the key molecules that are used to make soap. “Plastic pollution is a major problem we face today,” says Greg Liu at Virginia Tech. So, he and his ...

Instead of throwing out your plastic water bottles after use, go green by using them around the home with these fun and inventive hacks.