So I wanted to make my own tools so I could use recycled plastic locally.” Typical plastic production, like injection molding, uses very large and expensive machines — so expensive that most ...

We did this study because we are very concerned about the impacts for human and planetary health of massive, almost exponential recent increases in plastic production and plastic waste. Eight billion ...

Plastic production and consumption is out of control. We are being force-fed more plastic than we need and in a way that makes it impossible to responsibly manage. To this point, plastic producers ...

The Big Plastic Count 2024 which Greenpeace ran with Everyday Plastic, showed that the UK tops the global chart for plastic ... crisis is out of control, with production set to triple by 2050 ...

Supramolecular materials that fully degrade when soaked in saltwater have the potential to help address the microplastics pollution crisis.

But over the years, as the production of plastic has grown, scientists have found alarming increases in microplastics in our brains. L.A. Times investigative reporter Susanne Rust has been ...

Plastics production doubled from 234 million ... the country’s plastic waste having been recycled. This chart shows the share of plastic waste that is recycled (in percent).