Researchers are using air moisture to combat plastic pollution. This new technique efficiently breaks down PET plastics.

Global Plastic Production Every year, the world sees the production of over 400 million tons of plastic. This staggering ...

Hospitals around the world generate millions of tons of plastic waste annually. Much of this waste comes from single-use ...

As plastic piles up in landfills, New York authorities on the state and local levels are shifting their focus from recycling ...

A team of chemists has recently introduced an eco-friendly, solvent-free approach to recycling plastic by using moisture ...

About 100 million metric tons of high-density polyethylene (HDPE), one of the world's most commonly used plastics, are ...

Researchers reconstructed the history of an unusual 30-year-old bird nest based on the expiration dates printed on plastic ...

A team of scientists with Professor Tobin J. Marks broke down plastic using a simple, inexpensive catalyst and air.

A U.K. startup, originating from founder Jacob Nathan's high school science project on using enzymes to break down plastic ...

A team of materials scientists from Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, the University of Milano-Bicocca, and Istituto Italiano ...

Plastic waste is a huge problem, with bags and packaging a major culprit. A Bay Area startup has figured out a way to replace ...

A bill in Olympia would make Washington’s recycling system transparent, accessible to more people, and cut out plastic and ...