In the 1967 film, “The Graduate,” Dustin Hoffman, fresh out of college, receives career advice from an older adult at a party: “Plastics.” Not bad advice at the time. Today ...

Within 15 years, a garbage truck’s worth of plastic could be entering our environment every second. Not every minute. Every ...

Reader Alert: You may remember reading about this scam in the Toni Says column several months ago. Below is an email the Toni Says team received from a reader in Arizona just last week. Toni: I am ...

It’s time for some trash talk. That’s because some Lake County communities are beginning a new program impacting garbage collections. The Hefty ReNew program kicking off in October will be giving ...

Hansmeyer’s process involves creating an algorithm to design the structure of the Doric column. In the case of the Gwangju Design Biennale installation, none of the four columns share a single surface ...

There are more than 11 billion pieces of plastic debris on coral reefs across the Asia-Pacific, according to our new research, which also found that contact with plastic can make corals more than 20 ...

Hansmeyer has installed four new columns at the Gwangju Design Biennale in South Korea. He made them by iterating a subdivision algorithm, then CNC-milling parts out of 2,700 sheets of ...

Nobody wants plastic pollution. That doesn’t mean poorly considered and heavy-handed governmental actions are the solution. This includes misguided single-use plastic bans (e.g., bans on plastic ...

Graham Partners continues to expand in plastic building products with the purchase of certain assets from Dixie-Pacific Manufacturing Co. Inc. Graham's HB&G Building Products Inc. unit paid an ...

A stupid plastic bottle in the trash caused the first squabble in the Zero Waste Challenge of 2015. I suppose I'm not surprised. I'd spent most of the week digging things out of the garbage, ...