Turn an empty bottle into a low-maintenance planter that keeps your plants perfectly hydrated and adds a creative, ...

Every one of us creates huge amounts of plastic waste. Whether from soda bottles, water bottles, or milk jugs, plastic bottles account for a huge amount of household waste. However, you needn't ...

Three months ago, five gifted students from St. Anne-Pacelli Catholic School started sacrificing after-school time and Saturdays to come up with a winning project idea that would combat a problem in ...

Notre Dame's Innovation Lab is back with more fun experiments and projects anyone can do at home, with just a few simple tools and steps. All you need is two plastic bottles, one filled with water and ...

Plastic bags. Plastic forks. Plastic straws. All are non-biodegradable, single-use plastics that you can’t traditionally recycle—meaning that they inevitably end up in our seemingly never-ending waste ...

Chip provider PragmatIC has completed an eight-week pilot of Near Field Communication (NFC) RFID technology to track recyclable beverage containers from stores to the point of recycling. The company ...

An ambitious project at UC Berkeley aims to take plastic and break it down to create new plastic. Scientists at Berkeley said they have discovered a new way to vaporize plastic bottles and bags. What ...

GPS-outfitted bottles float among other trash in the Marsh Creek Watershed Scientists in Raleigh have launched plastic bottles containing GPS systems into local creeks to study litter and how waste ...

In Jiangxi, China, a teacher partnered with students to construct a rocket featuring two stages, each made from ordinary plastic bottles and launched using the pressure generated by water. The ...