located in southern China, a video captured the impressive efficiency of a factory producing plastic bottles. The footage showed a machine spinning at high speed, ejecting bottles at a remarkable ...

This story appears in the June 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine. After importing nearly half of the planet’s plastic recyclables for three decades, China barred the import of most ...

A billion kilograms of waste from plastic food containers — equivalent in weight to half a million cars — is generated every year in China, according to Yufei Qin, head of the plastic ...

He said he did not know how many plastic bottles the machine would get. “We will accumulate evidence and experience with the machines, and see what happens,” he added. How to recycle glass ...

His solar-powered Trashpresso turns plastic waste into small tiles that can be used to build walls and floors. “These machines are a prototype of what we think the future of recycling should be ...