Plastics are generally recycled back into oil in massive facilities, but a Japanese inventor has built a tabletop machine that can accomplish the same task safely and cleanly. It's called the Blest ...

Locker is a contributor for TIME. Locker is a contributor for TIME. In Istanbul, Turkey, where an estimated 150,000 stray dogs and cats reportedly wander the streets, a Turkish company called Pugedon ...

When a young Dutch designer named Dave Hakkens released Plonebloks, a concept for a modular phone, it set the internet on fire and helped Google along the same path. The explosion of attention was an ...

When you toss your newspaper, or plastic bottle or aluminum can in a mixed recycling bin, someone, somewhere, has to sort the material out so it can be turned into something new. The sorting is an ...

Global talks to slash plastic production and the toxic chemicals used to produce plastic products fell apart in Geneva this week Global talks to slash plastic production and the toxic chemicals used ...