Can drinking tea or coffee from paper cups be harmful? Yes! Hot beverages can release microplastics and toxic chemicals, ...

Coffee on the go is one of the most ubiquitous aspects of American life, and we have this convenience store chain to thank ...

Carlisle Companies Incorporated (NYSE:CSL) today announced it has completed the previously announced purchase of Texas-based expanded polystyrene insulation manufacturer ThermaFoam.

In 2023, the Oregon legislature passed Senate Bill 543, which bans many uses of polystyrene foam (commonly known by its brand name, Styrofoam) in ...

Predictably, Trump’s “deportation blitz” – as some outlets have dubbed it – has been a boon for the Mexican underworld and ...

To learn more about changes in the industry demand and discover if compostable coffee cups are truly a good solution, we interviewed Raegan Kelly, Sustainability Lead and Founding Member of Better for ...

President Donald Trump’s order to close the border to asylum seekers leaves thousands of migrants from across Central and ...

The polystyrene in #6 plastic items can be found in many household products, such as drinking cups. Once the polystyrene is ...

Researchers have discovered that carbon black in black plastic enables efficient recycling when exposed to focused light. The ...

It turns out that the black plastic lid atop your coffee cup has a superpower. And the Stache Lab at Princeton Chemistry, which uncovered it, is exploiting that property to recycle at least two major ...

It turns out that the black plastic lid atop your coffee cup has a superpower. And the Stache Lab at Princeton Chemistry, which uncovered it, is ...

This startling mechanism for promoting depolymerization relies on an additive that many plastics already contain: a pigment called carbon black that gives plastic its black color. Through a process ...