Researchers at Case Western Reserve University have developed an environmentally safer type of plastic that can be used for wearable electronics, sensors and other electrical applications. The ...

Plastics offer many benefits to society and are widely used in our daily life: they are lightweight, cheap and adaptable. However, the production, processing and disposal of plastics are simply not ...

The battle against plastic pollution is one being fought on many fronts, but a particularly critical one centers on the material's capacity to persist in the environment for a long time, even ...

You’ve probably seen enough documentaries, videos, and read articles to know that microplastics is one of the biggest pollutants of our oceans and of the earth in general. They last for decades, ...

Researchers submerged LAHB films at a depth of 855 m near Hatsushima Island to test real-world deep-sea biodegradation. After 13 months, the LAHB plastic lost over 80% of its mass, showing its ...

Granite Peak Plastics is a recycled resin supplier based in St. Louis. The company was incorporated in 2020, when the Granite Peak Group bought QRS Re-Poly Inc. and appointed QRS CEO Greg Janson as ...

Oxo-degradable plastic looked like it was going to solve our plastic problem. All it takes for an oxo-degradable single-use bag to degrade is oxygen. No longer would plastic waste be floating in the ...

Question: What do you do with invasive green crabs that have been overrunning ecosystems from Nova Scotia to California? Answer: You turn these crustaceans into biodegradable plastic. This is the kind ...

Plastics offer many benefits to society and are widely used in our daily life: they are lightweight, cheap and adaptable. However, the production, processing and disposal of plastics pose a major ...