Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A worker transports plastic waste slated for a compressor in Bentong, Malaysia, in June 2024 before the waste is recycled and sold ...

The global plastic crisis has long been a ticking time bomb, but now, it seems, a revolution is underway. One company, Corsair Group International, is rewriting the narrative of waste management with ...

Malaysia says it is no longer accepting plastic waste from a handful of nations, including the U.S., that didn’t ratify the Basel Convention. Malaysia emerged as a major destination for waste from the ...

Since 2019, the 191 countries that are party to an international agreement called the Basel Convention have agreed to classify mixed plastic trash as “hazardous waste.” This designation essentially ...

Researchers have devised a way to make a commonly used pain and fever reduction medication from plastic waste. Yes, you read that right. They used genetically engineered microbes to transform a ...