Floating at the side of a river that winds through densely populated neighborhoods in Panama City, a 52-foot-long robotic “trash wheel” sucks up plastic from the water and pulls it up a conveyor belt ...
The miracle material has made modern life possible. But more than 40 percent of it is used just once, and it’s choking our waterways. Just after dawn in Kalyan, on the outskirts of Mumbai, India, ...