Plastics, medicines, cosmetics—there are very few everyday products that do not rely on using fossil resources. A European ...

When the researchers added a nutrient broth heated to 122 degrees Fahrenheit (50 degrees Celsius ), the spores became active ...

One reason plastic waste persists in the environment is because there’s not much that can eat it. The chemical structure of most polymers is stable and different enough from existing food sources that ...

Plastic is everywhere — and so are its harms. In this Earth Day interview, a frontline community member shares how a new plastic plant changed her life and her town. Plastic is everywhere — and so are ...

Plastic feels like a modern industrial material, but this story shows how it can begin with something as ordinary as milk, potatoes, and sugar. What starts as an experiment in making bioplastics ...

At Austin Resource Recovery in Texas, styrofoam is densified so it can be recycled. While hot, the gooey substance looks like octopus arms squeezing out of a machine. “From here we take these, and we ...

Researchers from Rutgers University have figured out a way to make plastics that can be programmed to self-destruct. What’s more, this innovation has been achieved without the use of new chemicals but ...

Humans generate a lot of plastic waste—more than 400 million metric tons a year. To bring this fact a bit closer to home, the U.S. produced an average of 0.75 pounds of plastic waste per person each ...

Whether sorting plastics for the specific needs of an advanced recycler or separating material inside a more traditional material recovery facility (MRF), Machinex has designed turnkey solutions that ...