Scientists have developed a method that will allow plastic waste to be used in chemical reactions that make toxic compounds ...

UD chemical engineer wins the AIChE Langer Prize for efforts to harness biology to manage plastic waste sustainably ...

This is the worst incident we have ever seen. The impact on the environment and local wildlife can be catastrophic.' ...

Southern Water has apologised for the spill of so-called 'bio-beads', which have led environmental groups to warn of a ...

KTLA’s new ocean conservation series ‘Saving Our Seas’ dives into one of the largest and most worrisome issues facing our planet… the plastic problem. It’s a compounding catastrophe that has already ...

Some 170 trillion pieces of plastic are floating on the planet’s oceans — and scientists revealed for the first time that it ...

Scientists at the plastic technology center AIMPLAS are working hard to decrease our reliance on plastic. The team is "addressing this issue through innovative technologies such as physicochemical ...

Why is marine life eating plastic? Scientists say their sonar is being fooled. How do dolphins and other toothed whales mistake plastic for food? At the Duke Marine Lab in Beaufort, North Carolina, ...

Re “Throwaway Plastic Has Corrupted Us,” by Saabira Chaudhuri (Opinion guest essay, Sept. 7): Ms. Chaudhuri is right when she writes: “Single-use plastic was never inevitable. It was a business ...

Once upon a time, before marijuana became legal (or partly legal) in most of the U.S., the only plastic involved with a pot transaction might have been a small baggie and a disposable lighter. (Or, ...

Meanwhile, the single-use plastic packaging used to reduce food wastage poses a more insidious problem. Once discarded, the ...