A clever way to water your houseplants however, is to upcycle a plastic bottle. Just take off the lids and carefully poke holes in them with a sharp object. Fill your clean, empty bottle with ...

Credit: Adam Malin/ORNL, U.S. Dept. of Energy Researchers have developed a groundbreaking method to upcycle discarded plastics into new materials with enhanced properties. This innovation not only ...

This research is published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society, Upcycling may help address the approximately 450 million tons of plastic discarded globally each year, of which only 9 % is ...

ORNL’s invention may change plastic’s environmental fate by rearranging polymeric building blocks to ... highlighting the potential for its use in chemical upcycling. The molecular building blocks of ...

02/04/2025 February 4, 2025 A Ugandan farmer is growing calabash or bottle gourds as a natural alternative to plastic bottles. The idea is catching on and business is booming. Uganda still ...

This easy and adorable upcycle is the latter. Rahua Beauty (@rahuabeauty) shared one way to reuse its glass bottles, but you can do the same with just about any small glass container. The example ...

Upcycling may help remedy the roughly 450 million tons of plastic discarded worldwide annually, of which only 9% gets recycled; the rest is incinerated or winds up in landfills, oceans or elsewhere.

This is where a good-quality filtered water bottle can help you stay hydrated with safe water anytime, anywhere. These bottles have built-in filters that get rid of microplastics, bacteria and ...

Live your life healthier and happier with our free weekly Living Well newsletter Every minute, one million plastic bottles are bought around the world. And of the single-use plastic food and drink ...