A smell of warm sweetness surrounded the pot rock building and beckoned volunteers to the back entrance where they strapped on red Swiss Days aprons, hair nets and rubber gloves then set to make ...

Honouring a loved one who has passed away with a memorial bench or tree in Wellesley Township will now cost $2,500 or $800 respectively, and the placement or those memorials ...

Three young Triangle-based medical technology companies with roots in Duke University research labs are getting major global attention from their industry. They’re among the 65 cutting-edge companies ...

Plastic pills The bacteria Escherichia coli or E.coli, common in the gut microbiome, can be used to break down plastic into paracetamol, according to a study published in the journal Nature Chemistry.

Backyard scientist turns plastic waste into "plastoline" fuel using homemade pyrolysis reactor.

With genetic tweaks, E. coli turned 92 percent of broken-down plastic into acetaminophen, charting a path to upcycle plastic waste sustainably.

The researchers say plastic waste could shift from being an environmental burden to a feedstock for pharmaceutical products. Stephen Wallace, a chemical biotechnology researcher, led the work.

Newsom has called for a future free of plastic waste, yet a single-use plastic bottle is usually by his side during his podcasts.

Plastic materials include green plastic netting, white nylon string, white plastic-cotton filling, cream-colored insulation and opaque plastic twine, as well as fragments of rags.

A new study from the University of Delaware and Columbia University looked at plastic bag bans and fees in jurisdictions across the United States to gauge their effectiveness. The researchers found ...

Policies that have banned or imposed fees on plastic bags are leading to significant declines in plastic litter along U.S. shorelines, a new study has found. These state- and local-level regulation… ...