A startup in Mexico is trying to help get a handle on one Gulf coast city’s plastic waste problem by converting it into ...

Global efforts backed by the United Nations to work out a treaty for ending plastic pollution stalled last month as the 175 ...

It’s the year 2025 and, by now, it is abundantly clear that we have a major plastic problem–garbage patches in the ocean, ...

PolyCycl produces virgin-quality recycled polymers that meet the stringent standards required for food-contact and ...

From takeout containers to water bottles, plastic seems unavoidable in our daily lives. Now, two new studies have found that we’re eating and drinking more plastic than we might have realized.

Plastic is a really useful man-made material that has transformed our lives, but what happens after we throw it away is causing a big problem for our planet. Plastic waste can last for hundreds of ...

The problem, one of the biggest environmental issues confronting the world today, meanwhile continues to grow. While a political or legal solution may elude the world, scientists and engineers are ...

Every day, the equivalent of 2,000 garbage trucks full of plastic are dumped into the world's oceans, rivers, and lakes. Plastic pollution is a global problem. Every year 19-23 million tonnes of ...

As a doctoral student, Kaner contributed to the discovery of electrically conductive plastic by his advisors Alan MacDiarmid and Alan Heeger, who later received a Nobel Prize for their work. Other ...

It’s a long known fact that the country has a mounting plastic waste problem. According to the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR), the Philippines generates an estimated 2.7 ...