Plastic waste has long outpaced our ability to deal with it, largely because the most common packaging plastics are hard to ...

How do nanostructures keep plastics transparent while improving toughness and light control? PMMA, polycarbonate, COC ...

MIT engineers turn plastic waste into strong building parts that could solve housing crisis and reduce environmental impact ...

Researchers at Wageningen University & Research have developed a new type of plastic that, according to materials theory, should not be able to exist. Its properties sit somewhere between those of ...

Plastic waste is a huge problem, with bags and packaging a major culprit. A Bay Area startup has figured out a way to replace these plastics, with a plant that grows abundantly off the coast. At the ...

Court TV could have switched to all-plastics programming in 2024, and that's not a good thing. Some of the year's top plastics stories happened inside courtrooms. We had New York suing Pepsi over ...

The research is the first to project the environmental impact of biodegradable plastics through their entire lifecycle at a global scale ...

As the scale and extent of the effects from plastic pollution trigger regulation, customer concern, media controversy, and changes in market dynamics, companies will have to better understand how they ...

The global plastics system could be responsible for cutting 83 million years of healthy population life between 2016 and 2040 ...