Plastic to possibilities ...
Plastic is one of the most durable materials humans have ever made. That durability has made it indispensable in medicine, ...
Most products that we use every day either have microplastics in them or remain on the Earth for centuries. Here are some ...
Plastic bags tangled in trees. Takeout containers scattered along roadsides. Bottles clogging streams and waterways and washing up on beaches. Across the United States, plastic waste and pollution ...
Researchers have developed a sunlight-driven process that breaks down common plastic waste and reassembles its carbon into ...
A plastic drinks bottle is one of the most "recyclable" objects in the modern waste stream. It is lightweight and collected ...
Chemists and innovative recyclers are trying to turn gloves, pipette tips, and other laboratory plastic waste into something useful ...
During important processes like cleaning, fragments of plastic are lost as microplastics. This means the system itself creates plastic waste, and we urgently need to rethink the design and operation ...