We all consume milk, soft drinks, juice and water on a daily basis and throw the plastic away, without even thinking that once in the waste stream, it will end up on a landfill site. Now you can start ...

Give your home garden a creative boost with a simple DIY project using old bottle caps that prevents harmful from pests ...

Installed by Venezuelan artist Óscar Olivares, the mural in El Salvador was made with trash collected by local recyclers. It’s the largest artwork of its kind.

An epidemic of art grips Gainesville, and no cure is in sight. The city is decorated with murals depicting everything from pea pods in the depths of the southwest downtown parking garage to scenes ...

Instead of being tossed in the trash, plastic bottle caps will soon be deployed in a pilot project in Canso, N.S., to help break down waste water at a local treatment plant. The hope is the caps will ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. whitebalance.oatt / E+ via Getty Images Plastic bottles are the whack-a-moles of the real world. You recycle one and dozens more ...

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Plastic bottles, on the other hand, are usually made from a different kind of plastic called polyethylene terepthalate, or number one and PET. And polypropylene, that number-five plastic bottle caps, ...

SINGAPORE — On Monday (Dec 26), Mr Sim Boh Huat finally completed a mural in a neighbourhood square in Bedok using 80,000 plastic bottle caps, capping six months of effort that the 77-year-old retiree ...

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