From Canada to Colombia to Ivory Coast, people are converting plastic waste into building materials and using it to construct homes, schools, community centres and storage facilities.

Since it was first developed in 1907, plastic has transformed our daily lives. The cheap material’s versatility ... metabolises plant sugars from sugar cane, maize, or other biomass.

“The versatile nature of plastic — its light weight, durability and ease of moulding — is hard to rival with any material, now or in the foreseeable future, so plastic is here to stay ...

Miller and Moran, who help run the architectural practice T+E+A+M, saw both a material and an aesthetic opportunity in this recycled plastic building material. “We had this idea that waste ...

Stock image of a Cane Corso breed (Getty iStock/Linas Toleikis) A woman in her thirties required plastic surgery after she was attacked by her Cane Corso while she attempted to separate her pets ...

Suppliers and producers of recycled-content plastic face challenges involving uneven scrap supplies and shifting global demand, says London-based ICIS. Intensifying legislative and consumer pressure ...

Planet or Plastic? is National Geographic’s multiyear effort to raise awareness about the global plastic trash crisis. Come to this page often to learn more, and find out what you can do to ...

A woman in her thirties required plastic surgery after she was attacked by her Cane Corso while she attempted to separate her pets during a fight at home. Emergency services responded to calls of a ...