The average amount of plastic packaging waste generated by a single EU citizen per year is 36 kilograms. Longer-term ...

Many disposable objects are made of black plastic, which has so far proven to be very hard to recycle. US scientists have ...

Items made from black plastics, like spatulas, toys and take-out containers, may contain harmful chemicals from recycled ...

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Secondly, unlike the plastics that are polluting the planet and our bodies, the materials are biodegradable in water and even the compost bin. "Right now we use a lot of conventional ...

They're actually made from melted-down plastic waste from Detroit's auto industry, giving new life to materials that would otherwise end up in landfills. "We had this idea that waste plastic could be ...

Billions of tiny semiconductor chips hidden inside your mobile phone, electric vehicle, and an endless list of technologies and products, are busy powering Europe’s digital economy. The modern ...

Washington — A second Donald Trump administration seems certain to bring changes to Washington on environmental and trade policy that impact the plastics industry. The most immediate may be how ...

The SUP regulation targets plastics products that are typically used once and then discarded such as yoghurt cups, salad bowls and snack pouches. Walki has been working on developing a portfolio of ...

Materials such as bone and wood are extremely performant: although they are made from soft biological polymers, they are strong — and hence allow humans and trees to stand upright — because ...

"This is incredibly exciting, as up to now we have not had a tool for detecting plastics in coastal environments from space." Plastic littered across the world’s beaches can now be detected from ...

The United States has revised its position regarding ongoing U.N. plastics treaty negotiations. The U.S. originally wanted a treaty based on voluntary nation-by-nation compliance, with the ...