Plastic is one of the most durable materials humans have ever made. That durability has made it indispensable in medicine, ...

Plastic to possibilities ...

Using bacteria to take a bite out of plastic pollution is not new. But can the same microbes be used as a food source? In 2019, an agency within the U.S. Department of Defense released a call for ...

The breakthrough offers a promising new approach to reducing plastic pollution through photocatalysis, a metabolic pathway ...

Scientists have found a way to turn plastic into acetic acid using a source that's present in abundance.

In this world, plastic is the most stubborn waste. Normally, the plastic waste gets disposed of via municipal collection, ...

Stephen Techtmann, a microbiologist at Michigan Technological University in Houghton, and his research team have come up with an extremely tiny partial solution to a massive problem. The tiny part?

Scientists have found a way to convert discarded shrimp shells into dense, plastic-like films and objects, a development that could redirect tons of seafood industry waste into a viable substitute for ...

In the searing heat at the ACAMTC recycling cooperative south of São Paulo, in Três Corações, Brazil, a group of recycling waste workers known as Catadores prepared bales of discarded plastic for ...

Chemists and innovative recyclers are trying to turn gloves, pipette tips, and other laboratory plastic waste into something useful ...