Plastic trash lining a mountain trail might not seem like the start of a chemistry breakthrough, but for Yuwei Gu, it was.
Sure, a plastic bottle of water is an easy hydration solution. But that bottle also provides you with an astonishing amount ...
SINGAPORE – A team of A*STAR scientists has successfully upcycled waste polyethylene terephthalate (PET) plastic into polymer electrolytes, which are key components for safer lithium-ion batteries ...
A study from January 2024 found that plastic bottles slough off over 100,000 micro- and nano-plastics (MNPs) per liter of water. Even avoiding plastic bottles as a water source, water straight from ...
Plastic bottles are not only piling up in our landfills and oceans. Research shows they also shed invisible plastic particles that end up in our bodies. A new study found that a one-liter bottle of ...
Value chain collaboration is increasingly seen as a key element in efforts to boost the sustainability of products and processes within the plastics industry. Once such collaboration has now yielded ...
Washington — In a sign of the long-term shift in plastics industry positions on environmental legislation, the head of the Plastics Industry Association told a Senate hearing Dec. 15 it supports ...
A recyclability expert calls Evian's No-Label water bottle "nearly perfect" from a sustainability perspective.
With microplastics and nanoplastics present all over the globe, Northeast Ohio researchers overview human and animal studies ...
The EU is preparing stricter customs controls and new codes to prevent virgin plastic from being labeled as recycled.