plastic waste

6,000 milk bottle road in China: How plastic waste found a strange second life in Shanghai

In 2021, Shanghai used 6,000 milk bottles to fight plastic waste; the result became China's 1st plastic road, turning hard-to-recycle bottles into useful paving material

Most plastic bottles are used briefly before becoming waste. But in Hawaii, the equivalent of nearly 195,000 plastic bottles was given a very different destination beneath the tyres of thousands of vehicles

Residents and locals in Sector 67 are calling for the Municipal Corporation of Gurugram (MCG) to take action against people illegally dumping plastic and food waste in the green belt in Ramgarh, alleging that the issue has persisted for nearly a year. The site

To most Indian households, sealed packets of milk are some of the most common grocery items that pass through their doors. But their ubiquity also means thousands of tonnes of plastic waste are generated across the country