Plastic waste is one of the most serious pollution problems on the planet. Plastics are hard to break down and can last for decades in nature, even under the harshest conditions. A new catalyst ...

Plastic waste surrounds daily life, from food containers and grocery bags to shampoo bottles and medical supplies. Much of it ...

Plastics are widely used but difficult to degrade, posing an ecological challenge. A team from SIAT developed degradable "living plastics" using synthetic biology and polymer engineering. They ...

ZHOUSHAN CITY, ZHEJIANG PROVINCE, CHINA, February 11, 2026 /EINPresswire.com/ -- The global plastic processing industry ...

Technology is giving us more options for plastic waste, but new methods are still far from perfect. This article is from The Spark, MIT Technology Review’s weekly climate newsletter. To receive it in ...

We know that most plastics thrown into the recycling bin don’t get recycled, but what about the ones that do? According to new research, those also end up spitting bits of plastic back into the ...

Declining plastic recycling rates coupled with increased plastic pollution on the Earth’s surface and within its oceans spell concern for the planet’s health. In an effort to combat these trends, ...

A new way of chemically recycling single-use plastics might offer an incentive to keep them out of landfills. Ivan Radic via Flickr under CC BY 2.0 New research may offer a way to keep single-use ...

Maintaining a profitable plastics injection molding business requires an understanding of key metrics related to production capacity. After all, if you do not understand the fundamentals of a ...

According to a study published in Science, polymer scientists at ETH Zurich discovered an unexpected method for nearly completely breaking down PMMA plastic, also known as Plexiglas, into its monomer ...