A Madison woman has spent about 10 years making mattresses out of plastic bags for the homeless population in Sioux Falls.

Polyethylene plastics — in particular, the ubiquitous plastic bag that blights the landscape — are notoriously hard to recycle. They’re sturdy and difficult to break down, and if they’re recycled at ...

Nebraska put the equivalent of two million plastic bags into a 4,000-foot road in 2025, creating the state’s first ...

Polyethylene plastics—in particular, the ubiquitous plastic bag that blights the landscape—are notoriously hard to recycle. They're sturdy and difficult to break down, and if they're recycled at all, ...

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Engineers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.) may have solved a key issue discouraging apparel makers from working with polyethylene (PE), the material commonly used in plastic wrap ...

While many cities and eight states have banned single-use plastics, bags and other polyethylene packaging still clog landfills and pollute rivers and oceans. One major problem with recycling ...

Polyethylene plastics -- single-use bags and general-purpose bottles -- are indestructable forever plastics. That also makes them hard to recycle. Chemists have found a way to break down the polymer - ...