There must be product designers in these companies that can create durable and cost-effective products such as plastic desks, chairs, and tables that can replace the heavy reliance on timber.

Our work helps shape sound policies, inform public opinion ... The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine will establish a Roundtable on Plastics that will provide a forum for ...

Some livestock still had plastics in their gut after the ban on plastics took effect in the country in August 28, 2017, a study by the National Environmental Management Authority (NEMA ...

As the world’s governments work on developing a legally binding agreement on plastic pollution by the end of 2024, replacing single-use plastic with single-use paper might seem like a straightforward ...

When it comes to plastic, the rules can be extra confusing -- there's a lot more to it than tossing a water bottle in the recycling bin and calling it a day. Here's why: Not all plastics can be ...

Researchers from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) have discovered that CDA is the fastest degrading type of plastic in seawater – technically classified as a bioplastic – and with ...

Takeout containers are essential for getting food from restaurants to our tables without a mess, but most are hard to recycle ...

Researchers studying bottlenose dolphins found polyester and other plastics in every animal they tested. By Hiroko Tabuchi Scientists have found plastic pollution almost everywhere they have looked.

After the bacteria consume the microplastics, they create an eco-friendly biopolymer that could form new plastic bags, for example. The researchers' work is an important part of the global effort ...

The world is drowning in plastic. Each year, we discard300,000,000 tons of the stuff, and less than 10 per cent of that waste is recycled. One of the biggest culprits? The food packaging industry.

“If we had price stability for secondary plastics we would have a booming UK recycling sector.” Standard mechanical recycling works for about 90pc of the plastic types we use. And plastics ...

Consumer Recycled Plastics Market by Source (Bottles, Non-bottle Rigid), Polymer Type, Processing Type (Mechanical, Chemical, ...