A comprehensive assessment sought to evaluate the potential environmental impacts of replacing polyethylene, or PE, packaging like bags, films and containers with alternative materials, including ...

A Curtin University-led paper, "The Use of Plastic as a Household Fuel among the Urban Poor in the Global South" published in ...

A new type of adhesive that can be cleanly removed from plastic bottles and packaging before disposal could lead to ...

High-pressure experiments generated the first direct observation of plastic ice, which has qualities of both crystalline ice and liquid water.

President Donald Trump signed an executive order last week to end the federal procurement of paper straws. The order, which ...

Researchers at the University of California Los Angeles recently shared their breakthrough work using a specific type of ...

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Scientists found plastic particles in nearly all seafood samples. Smaller species like shrimp had more contamination.

Coral reefs trap microplastics due to their mucus. Researchers confirmed that coral mucus acts as an adhesive.

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Other potential microplastics sources our experts brought up are fabrics that touch your skin often (clothing, bedding, ...

Currently, just 10–15% of the plastic waste we generate annually is ... uses heat to break the strong carbon–carbon bonds that hold polymer chains together. This produces molecular fragments ...