One man’s trash is another man’s treasure or, in this case, plastic bags. The Lions Club in Goddard is collecting them and ...

“This study finds that the olfactory pathway is a potential major entry route for plastic into the brain, meaning that ...

Fall is my favorite season. I love cooler weather and the leaves changing color. To help celebrate the changing season, we ...

A radical new process "vaporizes" plastic bags and bottles to help make recycled materials. The innovative chemical procedure turns the ubiquitous waste items into hydrocarbon "building blocks" for ...

A study published in Nature Chemical Biology leverages the natural resilience of spores, which can endure extreme environmental conditions, by programming them to secrete plastic-degrading enzymes ...

SINGAPORE – A unique research vessel that embarked on a three-year expedition around the world in October 2022, with the ambition to stop plastic pollution in the oceans, has arrived in Singapore.

They had participants switch from drinking from glass and plastic bottles to drinking from the tap only. Their reasoning was simple: Plastic bottles shed microplastic, tiny pieces of plastic that ...

The Queensland government's plastic bag ban mandates that bags made of plastic film must include at least 80 per cent recycled content. Multiple government webpages incorrectly suggested this ...

Human brain samples collected at autopsy in early 2024 contained more tiny shards of plastic than samples collected eight years prior, according to a preprint posted online in May. A preprint is a ...

A green accounting method called “mass balance” certifies that something was manufactured with recycled plastic — just not necessarily much of the bottle making the claim. By Julie Creswell ...

When it comes to heating up food, it’s generally recommended that you avoid microwaving stuff in plastic containers. But while many people are aware that this isn’t an ideal way to heat up ...