Sand, rock, and melted plastic now sit beneath the tires on a quiet residential street in Oahu. For nearly a year, cars have rolled over an experiment that could reshape how Hawaii deals with its ...

Sara Novak reports for SN on how Hawaii is literally paving the path to a circular economy. Hawaii’s leadership in ...

Researchers collect road dust samples from a section of road paved with recycled plastic-reinforced asphalt. Pictured left to right: Rachel Nakamoto, Simon Williams, Cara Megill and Cate Wardinski.

The four nesting beaches at Rushikulya have a significant presence of plastic waste and discarded fishing nets, says a study.

In the Pacific Ocean between California and Hawaii, hundreds of miles from any major city, plastic bottles, children’s toys, broken electronics, abandoned fishing nets and millions more fragments of ...

In Hawaii, researchers are literally paving the roads with good intentions. They have come up with an innovative method for putting the island’s plastic pollution to work, covering its roads with ...