In Uganda, millions of youth aged 15-30 face high unemployment rates due to varying levels of education. Additionally, over 600 tons of plastic waste are poorly disposed of in the country, which has ...

How Are Plastic Bottles Made? Plastics are made from oil or natural gas, which are made of molecules called hydrocarbons. When you heat hydrocarbons to very high temperatures, they break down into ...

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A Canadian eco-innovator transforms plastic waste into a castle in Panama, inspiring sustainable building solutions.

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Have you ever stopped to think about what happens to those little orange pill bottles after you finish your prescription? Every year, around 200 billion of these bottles are produced worldwide, and ...

I know, know: you’re reading my headline with horror and shock, clutching your vacuum-insulated water bottle, shuddering with rage that one would even dare suggest that plastic water bottles could be ...

Here at Snopes, we are all too familiar with baseless, fearmongering posts on Facebook. Sometimes, however, these rumors actually have merit. Back in 2010, we investigated a claim that homemade bombs ...

In Jiangxi, China, a teacher partnered with students to construct a rocket featuring two stages, each made from ordinary plastic bottles and launched using the pressure generated by water. The ...