Paper, yard trimmings, wood, and other materials all end up in municipal landfills in significant quantities, and yet no one ...
Using bacteria to take a bite out of plastic pollution is not new. But can the same microbes be used as a food source? In 2019, an agency within the U.S. Department of Defense released a call for ...
The PRecycling project aims to recover high-quality polymeric materials enabling up to 100% recycled content incorporation in ...
Industry Insight from Ethical Corporation Magazine, a part of Thomson Reuters. Plastic, made up of 99% oil, often seen as a plan B for the petrochemical industry Difficulties dealing with plastic ...
Plastic is just about everywhere, piling up in streams, landfills, and even our bloodstreams and placentas. The United Nations agrees that something must be done, given both the excess of waste and ...
People in low-income urban communities in the Global South without access to reliable energy sources are burning the toxic ...
A new study is shedding light on households in developing countries burning plastic as an everyday energy source, causing ...
When wildlife photographer Shawn Miller discovered Okinawa's hermit crabs living in plastic bottle caps instead of shells, he ...
Those crinkly plastic cartons are so much more than just a single-use receptacle for storing your favorite fruit.