Plastic

Grace Lee has just spent a month in Seoul, South Korea working as an intern for the Resource Recirculation Management Division under the Climate Change and Environment Bureau of Seoul City Hall. Here’s what she has to say to her fellow US citizens about their domestic waste…

Worried by an eco backlash, the bottled water industry is waging a PR battle to turn the public back onto plastic bottled water

From turning old clothes into bags to making plastic cups into fabulous pencils, spring-cleaning just got lucrative

Whether it’s plastic bottles or old magazines, Valentina Jovanovski has a creative way to turn it into something entirely new

A behind-the-scenes look at the British supermodel's shoot for SodaStream's 'World Without Bottles' campaign

UK consumers get through 14 million litres of bottled soft drinks every year at a significant cost to the environment. So why not try making your own?

Five committed twentysomethings are making a 2,000-mile trek across the US, picking up litter and educating young people and communities about zero waste

PHOTO GALLERY: In exclusive images from a brilliant new eco-design book we illustrate innovative ways designers around the world are creating sustainable food packaging, products and appliances...

There are certain rules of thumb when it comes to storing, freezing and heating food in plastic containers. Read on to find out how to use plastics safely

Fish and other sea mammals are paying a heavy price for the tonnes of lost or abandoned fishing gear in our oceans

Plastic rubbish gets tossed away in far-off places that we rarely get to see. Daisy Dumas assesses its impact on the world's largest floating landfill.

Frustrated by the disposable hangovers from her kids’ parties, Hina Patel made it her business to make goodie bags green

The US authorities have allowed Formosa Plastics and other chemicals corporations to poison the waterways of the Texas Gulf Coast for decades. When local shrimp-boat operator Diane Wilson found out what was going on she single-handedly set about forcing Formosa to clean up its act.

The world lives under oil’s spell. Jeremy Smith reveals the extent to which the industry’s by-products have permeated our lives.