Ruthmanie Jacques, Demari Davis, Andrew Oates, Aliyah Crockett, Ben Axene. Photo courtesy of Bekah Van Bruggen. After ...

At present, only two groups of plastic, polyethylene (PET) and high-density polyethylene (HDPE) among seven plastic groups are widely and easily recycled. However, the majority of plastic wastes are ...

Food and beverage packaging frequently uses polyethylene terephthalate (PET), and most of these products wind up in landfills. The primary problem with plastic waste is that it can harm the ...

"I wanted to create a simple way to help prevent plastic rings from harming animals and wildlife," said an inventor from Wausau, Wisconsin. "My idea would make the disposal process easier for users ...

Environmentalists from Highland, Michigan City, East Chicago, Hobart and Valparaiso gathered Wednesday at Valparaiso University to start working together on ways to address the proliferation of ...

In the time it takes you to read this sentence — say, four seconds — the world produces nearly 60 metric tons of plastic, almost entirely out of fossil fuels. That’s about 53,000 metric tons an hour, ...

Plastic is one of humanity’s most useful, flexible, and inexpensive inventions. Inexpensive, that is, until you remember the massive environmental and health costs of plastic production and waste.

Plastic is everywhere. Humans produce so much plastic that we end up throwing away about 400 million tons of plastic-related trash every year. And researchers are learning that this trash doesn't stay ...

Scientists have engineered yeast to turn PET plastic and agricultural waste into ingredients for protein-rich, 3D-printed cookies called µBites. Developed partly for NASA’s Deep Space Food Challenge, ...

Canada’s environmental department is prioritizing the issue of plastic waste from the apparel and textile industry—and it’s turning to the public for feedback as it charts the path forward. The ...

Picture this: a 21-year-old backyard scientist in Alabama, Julian Brown, sweeps away some dirt and leaves from his homemade solar- and generator-powered, 10-magnetron-powered pyrolysis microwave ...

Since China banned the import of plastic waste in 2018, plastic pollution has been having a growing impact on the people and ...