Plastic is everywhere in modern society. While it has paved the way for enormous progress, the pollution it leaves behind is ...

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Scientists have designed a new material system to overcome one of the biggest challenges in recycling consumer products: mixed-plastic recycling. Their achievement will help enable a much broader ...

Hiking through Bear Mountain State Park in New York, the Rutgers chemist saw plastic bottles scattered along the path and ...

The Espoo, Finland-based VTT Technical Research Centre says, after four decades of thermal conversion technology development, it is ready to commercialize a process it says “can affordably convert ...

Yuwei Gu conceived this idea while hiking on a park trail and noticing plastic bottles littered around.

Forward-looking: Plastic materials have become a cornerstone of modern life, but their widespread use has created a growing environmental challenge. Scientists worldwide are racing to develop ...

Plastic pollution is poisoning the planet. Some experts suggest making plastics from more "natural" materials, but research shows those still have risks. When you purchase through links on our site, ...

Plastics are durable and strong, which is great while they’re being used but frustrating when they end up in the environment. Scientists at RIKEN in Japan have developed a new type of plastic that’s ...

The plastics program at Penn State Behrend College has received a $1.5 million state grant to build a new plastics lab. The grant is part of the state's Redevelopment Assistance Capital Program (RACP) ...