A new book by the journalist Beth Gardiner argues that oil companies are upping production of the material as a safeguard against falling revenue. By Zoë Schlanger Zoë Schlanger is an environmental ...

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 ...

A large-scale soft plastics recycling facility at Taree is processing most of Australia's recycled soft plastics and stockpiled waste from the failed REDcycle scheme. Processed soft plastic is sent to ...

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 ...

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 ...

Artificial intelligence systems are thirsty, consuming as much as 500 milliliters of water – a single-serving water bottle – for each short conversation a user has with the GPT-3 version of OpenAI’s ...

It’s more common than you think: you peel back a food wrapper and a tiny piece of plastic sticks to your snack, or you sip water from a plastic bottle left in the sun. Sometimes, you might not even ...

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 ...