There, researchers dried, sifted and spun the sand with a high-density saline solution to separate out the bits of plastic, which they painstakingly counted under a microscope. What they found was ...

A mortar made from recycled plastic and silica aerogel that improves insulation and reduces plastic waste has been developed ...

Then she developed machinery to churn out the sand-plastic paste and stamp it into sturdy paving bricks. Her company Gjenge Makers gets most of their plastic free from factories that would ...