New findings are raising concerns about how the tiniest particles, microplastics and nanoplastics, might be damaging one of ...

A Holly Springs teen’s startup turns recycled bottles into swimwear and removes a pound of ocean plastic for every sale.

As single-use plastic piles up in landfills and pollutes oceans, event spaces are turning to food packaging that can be washed and reused hundreds of times.

Recycled plastic pellets from polyethylene (PE) can be used when making a water bottle for instance. But we can never have full knowledge of what chemicals will end up in an item made of recycled ...

Plastic pollution poses a severe health crisis, infiltrating bodies with harmful chemicals, urging immediate action for public health protection.

Here's a rather novel way to keep trash out of landfills: engineering biologists at the University of Edinburgh have ...

Drinks stored in glass bottles contained between five and 50 times the level of microplastics as drinks in plastic bottles.

You eat thousands of bits of plastic every year. Though abundant in water, air, and common foods, it’s unclear how it might affect our health.

Green PET bottles have continued to show up in the recycling stream for two years in one part of the country after Coca-Cola ...

State Key Laboratory of Polymer Physics and Chemistry and State Key Laboratory of Rare Earth Resources Utilization, Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun, ...

Some types of plastic simply aren't equipped to handle the same conditions as our plants. Here's how to tell which plastics ...

Recycled plastic market is expected to witness significant growth in the coming years, with the market size projected to increase from US$ 50.80 billion in 2024 to US$ 102.40 billion by 2033, growing ...