A team of South Korean scientists have produced the polymers used for everyday plastics through bioengineering, rather than through the use of fossil fuel-based chemicals. It is believed that the ...

According to a study published in the journal Science, a new method converts mixed plastic waste into fuel with 95% ...

Researchers have demonstrated a new and sustainable way to make the chemicals that are the basis of thousands of ...

searchers have developed a method to break down PET, one of the world’s most widely used plastics, for sustainable recycling ...

July 29 - In the theatre of global self-destruction, few spectacles rival the plastic paradox: nations drowning in toxic chemicals of their own making, like alchemists poisoning themselves with their ...

Good sleep habits are crucial to a healthy lifestyle. A new study suggests that chemicals in plastics may throw off our bodies' sleep cycles. Plastic is now prevalent in our lives and hard to avoid, ...

Sustainability regulation and consumer demand are supercharging the move to recycled plastics. However, technical challenges such as adapting to variable feedstocks, controlling the color and ...

Researchers have linked a harmful chemical in plastic to hundreds of thousands of deaths from heart disease worldwide, and even as pervasive as plastic is, local experts said there are ways for people ...

DEHP, a plastic-softening chemical, may have contributed to 356,000 global heart disease deaths in 2018 NYU researchers identify Asia and the Middle East as bearing three-quarters of the health burden ...

Countries that want the plastics treaty to limit what they see as problematic plastic products and chemicals are stepping up their push for the agreement to more explicitly address risks to human ...