A major breakthrough in plastic technology promises to tackle one of the planet’s biggest environmental challenges:plastic ...

Households in England have been warned that a wide range of everyday waste items no longer belong in recycling bins under the ...

Changing consumer preferences are shaping the polymer industry in Northeast Ohio, where nearly 37,000 people are employed in ...

Cambridge scientists use sunlight, battery acid, and plastic waste to make industrial chemicals with 99% yield. Researchers ...

Researchers at Colorado State University and the National Laboratory of the Rockies (NLR) developed a synthetic PHA that is more scalable, easier to chemically recycle, and has more-tunable properties ...

Scientists at the Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology have developed a "living plastic" with a built-in kill switch.

There's a lab at the University of Maryland-College Park working to curb the issue by finding natural ingredients to create ...

That instinct to drop anything plastic, paper or cardboard into the recycling bin is hard to shake, but it's also one of the ...

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Green Science Alliance developed plant biomass based biodegradable mulch film for agriculture. This product can be purchased ...

Researchers at Virginia Tech are working on a new way to make biodegradable packaging more affordable and easier to produce ...

Experts warn that Nigeria's surging plastic pollution crisis threatens public health, with millions of tonnes of waste ...