Manufacturers use method that labels plastic as ‘circular’ and climate-friendly, despite being mostly fossil-based Europe’s supermarket shelves are packed with brands billing their plastic packaging ...

Seeing plastic trash while hiking inspired a Rutgers chemist to rethink why synthetic plastics last forever while natural polymers don’t. By mimicking tiny structural features used in DNA and proteins ...

Matt Fuchs lives in Maryland and writes about health, science, and technology. Matt Fuchs lives in Maryland and writes about health, science, and technology. Long ago, humans chopped and ground meats ...

Waste plastics are hydrogenolyzed and served as the solvent for coal liquefaction. The liquefied coal is fabricated into carbon fibers. This process shows a sustainable pathway to avoid pollution and ...

Hard plastic made from bamboo is as strong and durable as conventional plastics for uses such as household appliances and car interiors, but is also recyclable and biodegrades easily in soil. Plastics ...

Phthalates, chemicals found in plastics, are linked to an array of problems, especially in pregnancy Warning: This graphic requires JavaScript. Please enable ...

Founded in 2018, Modulus Alternatives is among the early entrants in India’s private credit space. Alternative asset manager Modulus Alternatives has announced the final close of its India Credit ...

Plastic is one of the most remarkable materials ever created. It’s cheap, lightweight and endlessly versatile. It can be shaped into anything from shopping bags to lifesaving tools in hospitals, and ...

Using crowdsourced data from shore cleanups, researchers found that areas that enacted plastic bag bans or fees had fewer bags littering their lakes, rivers and beaches than those without them. By ...

A study identified black spatulas as a source of chemical leaks in food – but miscalculated the dosage. So how concerned should you really be? The black spatula was recently identified as an ...

A recent study that recommended toxic chemicals in black plastic products be immediately thrown away included a math error that significantly overstated the risks of ...

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