The U.S. Can Step Down as Top Plastic Polluter as Scientists Present a New Simpler Method to Break Down Plastic Plastic ...

Scientists in South Korea have engineered tiny bacterial cells that are churning out plastic. The plastics produced by the ...

Plastic to be recycled is seen in a sorting bunker at Sierra ... Aluminum that passes through Sierra, for example, is sold to ...

A team of chemists has recently introduced an eco-friendly, solvent-free approach to recycling plastic by using moisture ...

A plastic called polypropylene is often used to make tea bags, and even if you choose paper tea bags, there can still be microplastics in them. The issue is that when the bags contact hot water ...

Re “So long, penny! Trump orders U.S. to ditch 1-cent coin after decades of complaints” (Feb. 10): Consider this solution to ...

Isabel Cristina Gámez and Oscar Andrés Méndez have developed a novel system that repurposes shampoo bottles and food packaging into a modular system far cheaper than traditional construction.

Chelsea Rochman, a professor of ecology at the University of Toronto, soaked ground-up polyethylene, which is used to make some types of plastic bags, in San Diego Bay for three months.

If you aren’t ready to ditch your plastic bottles or don’t have a filter for your tap, there are other ways to reduce microplastic intake. “Beyond bottled water, significant dietary sources ...

"It’s pretty alarming," Campen told The Guardian in August. "There’s much more plastic in our brains than I ever would have imagined or been comfortable with." The fragments of plastic ...