Our planet has a plastic problem. Of the billions of tons produced, only a small part, less than 10%, has been recycled. The rest is thrown into dumps. It is burnt, or ends up in the ocean.

The winning statistic of 2018 is that 90.5% of all the plastic that’s ever been produced has never been recycled.

A Spanish company is rolling out a deinking technology capable of removing pigments from a variety of recovered resins, a step that eases processing and boosts value.

Made from polylactic acid (PLA), the set is the result of designer Qiyun Deng’s studies at the École cantonale d’art de Lausanne in Switzerland.

In Finland, seven non-profit “reuse centres” have popped up around Helsinki, offering preloved furniture, clothes, toys, books, sports gear and cookware.

Slovakian designer Šimon Kern's Beleaf chair is made from a mixture of recycledleaves and bio-resin.

London-based designer designer Peter Marigold is launching a remouldable bioplastic card that can be used to make new tools and modify or repair broken objects.

Retailers and producers of packaging will be forced to pay the full cost of collecting and recycling it under the government’s new waste strategy.

BASF’s ChemCycling project is a new innovative way to reutilize the plastic wastes by thermochemical processes to produce syngas or oils.

Viele weiche PVC-Sorten sind gesundheitsgefährdend. Ein Konsortium der Hamburger und Bielfelder Universitäten sowie der BASF SE sucht deshalb nach biobasierten Alternativen.