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

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 ...

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

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

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

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 ...

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

To overcome these limitations, a research team led by Dr. Tae Ann Kim of the Convergence Research Center for Solutions to ...

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

Researchers at Northwestern University have developed an innovative PET plastic recycling method that is safer, more ...