One reason plastic waste persists in the environment is because there’s not much that can eat it. The chemical structure of most polymers is stable and different enough from existing food sources that ...

Scientists have discovered a way to convert widely used plastics into new materials with distinct properties that degrade ...

Humans generate a lot of plastic waste—more than 400 million metric tons a year. To bring this fact a bit closer to home, the U.S. produced an average of 0.75 pounds of plastic waste per person each ...

Researchers from Rutgers University have figured out a way to make plastics that can be programmed to self-destruct. What’s more, this innovation has been achieved without the use of new chemicals but ...

At Austin Resource Recovery in Texas, styrofoam is densified so it can be recycled. While hot, the gooey substance looks like octopus arms squeezing out of a machine. “From here we take these, and we ...