The world is littered with trillions of micro- and nanoscopic pieces of plastic. These can be smaller than a virus—just the ...

But if you just throw plastic into the environment, it creates micro- and nanoplastics that look like they are going to cause ...

Plastic pollution is a big problem ... promising answer to combat one of Earth’s major pollution problems. “The machinery in ...

The findings explain how most common plastics shed nanoscopic pieces into the environment – not just when they’re burned or crushed, but slowly and quietly, just by sitting out in the open.

The report leverages the data platform for plastic environmental analytics that provides global leakage and waste management metrics, Plasteax, to theoretically show how strategic mechanical and ...

It converts plastic waste into wax and eco-friendly ... and create circular economy solutions to some of our biggest environmental issues," founder and CEO Bob Powell told Business Insider Today.

Scientists are looking for new ways to recycle plastic in an endless loop, so it never becomes waste. Now, revolutionary technology is advancing the movement. PureCycle Technology presents a major ...

KAMAKURA, Kanagawa Prefecture--For third-grader Yuki Harasawa, a video on YouTube about plastic waste was the last straw. She decided there and then to stop using plastic straws provided during lunch ...

Early studies suggest that plastic particles are influencing human blood pressure, a condition linked to serious ...

Once dissolved, the plastic breaks down into harmless compounds, reducing the environmental impact. In their new study, Aida and his team focused on solving this problem with supramolecular ...

Today, the Council and the European Parliament provisionally agreed on a regulation on preventing the loss of plastic pellets – the industrial raw materials used to make plastic products – into the ...