Microplastics are all over your kitchen, and plastic utensils are part of the problem. Plastic utensils could be leaking microplastics into your food each time you cook with them. These tiny plastic ...

Microplastics are a problem that doesn’t seem to be going away anytime soon and your favorite foods could be contaminated.

Meanwhile, the single-use plastic packaging used to reduce food wastage poses a more insidious problem. Once discarded, the ...

UD chemical engineer wins the AIChE Langer Prize for efforts to harness biology to manage plastic waste sustainably ...

As technological advancements contribute to more facilities mechanically or chemically recycling film, lacking end markets ...

Cups, bags, wipes, and wrappers slip into your day without much thought, used once and forgotten. But the pile doesn’t vanish ...

Only about 9% of plastic is recycled. Most of the rest goes to landfills or ends up in the environment. FutureBio wants to ...

Scientists are finding that coffee pods and cups may contribute to this problem. Many coffee pods and single-serve cups ...

From banning single-use plastics to investing in waste-to-energy projects and introducing one of the region’s first circular ...

A new plant-based polymer developed by researchers at Lithuania's Kaunas University of Technology (KTU) offers an alternative to petroleum-based plastics, with numerous added benefits. The smart ...

A jarring amount of waste flows from a Toronto river into one of the Great Lakes—one very, very, very tiny piece at a time, a ...

Drivers should work to curb their aggression I feel compelled to write after a particularly stressful morning of driving on U ...