There are also significant greenhouse gas emissions that come from processing plastics or oil into textiles." At the other end of the fabric lifecycle, synthetic fabrics take much longer to ...

A new study highlights the increasing dangers of childhood chemical exposure and how even small exposures can lead to serious ...

Tiny microplastics are making their way into the human brain, and new research suggests the problem is getting worse.

Significant chemical repurposing breakthroughs have been achieved in the past five years on commonly known synthetic plastics, like PE, PET, and PS. However, there has been limited experimentation ...

Postmortem brain samples collected last year contain considerably more microplastics than similar samples collected nearly a decade ago, a new study has found, indicating the tiny synthetic particles ...

Despite the risks of environmental pollution and human exposure, the manufacture of synthetic chemicals and plastics is subject to insufficient legal or policy constraints. That regulatory vacuum ...