Nigerian engineer Yahaya Ahmed built his first model house with 14,800 sand-filled plastic bottle (Image Credit: BBC) What if thousands of discarded plastic bottles could become part of a house instea...
Yanin (Proud) Tangkaravakoon. Image Credit: The Nation At just 17, Thai student Yanin ‘Proud’ Tangkaravakoon has turned a concern for endangered hornbills into a unique conservation project that gives...
More than 1.3 million plastic bottles were collected from coastlines and waterways worldwide in a massive volunteer cleanup effort that began 40 years ago with just 2,800 people on the Texas Gulf Coas...
Representative Image (AI-generated) What if some of the waste we throw away could eventually become part of the roads we drive on? In 2022, Melbourne’s M80 Ring Road upgrade offered a striking example...
An entrepreneur began melting discarded plastic into walls Workers at a recycling plant in central Mexico are turning five and a half tonnes of discarded plastic bottles and old toys every day into st...
An EcoDom prototype house built using its plastic panels. Plastic production has increased exponentially over the last few decades. A 2017 study published in Science Advances estimated that 8.3 billio...
In Canada, wood waste from logging and areas affected by wildfires is finding an unexpected fate. A new pilot in the country has begun converting this material into a lightweight, biodegradable wood f...
Pilot whales stranded around Hawaii Massive tangles of discarded fishing lines, ropes and plastic bags are harming marine life in the Pacific, with deep-diving whales swallowing thousands of plastic p...
A floating and rotating ‘garbage island’ of an estimated area of 1.6 million square kilometres lies between Hawaii and California, according to a scientific estimate published in 2018. The...
Eastern box turtle (Image Credit: Canva) Finding a turtle nest in the wild is far more difficult than it sounds. Smithsonian researchers studying Eastern box turtles in Virginia have been using a comb...