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Single-Use Plastic Makes up the Majority of Trash Identified for Three Years in a Row, Underscoring Urgent Need for Solutions. The 5 Gyres Institute published results...
Rice University lab turns hard-to-process trash into carbon-capture master HOUSTON – Here’s another thing to do with that mountain of used plastic: make it soak up...
By Prachi Patel Researchers create plastics that are stiff or rubbery, and performed as well, or better, than commonly available plastics. Starting with sugars, researchers have made...
By Mark L. Friedman Leave a cheap plastic bag in the sun long enough and it’ll eventually crumble into a powdery mess, its petrochemical fragments destined...
University of Missouri engineers are working with Dow and the Missouri Department of Transportation to test the use of plastic waste in road pavement mixtures. Each...
Single-use plastic has been cancelled, and it’s about time the beauty industry took proper notice. As part of Zero-Waste Week, Uswitch has analysed 50 of the...
Sustainability across the entire value chain — rather than advances in technology alone — is required to solve the United States’ plastic waste problems, according to...
By the University of Arizona Discussions of the growing plastic waste problem often focus on reducing the volume of single-use plastic packaging items such as bags,...
By Heather A. Wright, Scientist The Global Plastic Problem – We’re global citizens of this planet. We and our stuff move around the planet and permeate the...
By Kevin Majoros Banner photo above by Floris Kok All over the world, creative conservationists are repurposing plastics into items that can be used daily. Everything...