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.

As an organizer and advocate working in Chicago to reduce single-use plastics, I’d like to share ... The skyrocketing cost of repairing, mitigating and building resilience to damage from ...

To get you in a summer frame of mind, here's a Minneapolis-based outdoor furniture company, Yardbird, that uses recycled plastics gathered from waterways and beaches to make its chairs and sofas.

Plastic bottles choke the Cibeles fountain, outside city hall in central Madrid ... It’s a matter of building the necessary institutions and systems, he says—ideally before the ocean turns ...

To the editor: To combat plastic pollution in our oceans, we need to cut back on plastic production, not try to capture the endless stream of it. A recent article in The Times on an effort to ...

I assure you, nothing will prepare you for the complete unabashed power of a 9-plus magnitude earthquake. Good Friday, 1964, Fort Richardson, Alaska. Hire a structural engineer to evaluate our ...

("Yes, California must ban plastic grocery bags — again," editorial, Aug. 5) As your editorial correctly points out, I couldn't just toss them into the recycling bin (it would be pointless for ...

To the editor: The bill passed by the California Legislature to eliminate plastic bags at grocery stores, even the thicker “reusable” ones that are rarely reused, is a long overdue.

To put that into context, that's the equivalent weight of 650 Empire State Buildings. The report comes as the world reaches Plastic Overshoot Day - the day humanity's plastic waste surpasses our ...

City Apps can be customized for several types of uses, including classrooms, water filtration systems, medical clinics, or homes.

Danish architecture studio Dorte Mandrup has just released the designs for its new project in the Arctic Region. Teaming up with high-end Norwegian adventure and outdoor brand Norrøna ...

But Rushanara Ali told parliament yesterday that “counting the buildings that we know about is not enough” and there could be many more outside the official statistics. She said: “We estimate that as ...