Chemists at CU Boulder have developed a new way to recycle a common type of plastic found in soda bottles and other packaging. The team's method relies on electricity and some nifty chemical reactions ...

Plastics are everywhere—from your phone case to the containers holding your food. They're cheap, light, and strong, which makes them incredibly useful. But their strength is also their downfall. Once ...

Nowadays microplastics are getting mixed in food items and becoming a part of our body. These small plastic particles are not visible but can be dangerous for health. Kitchen Items With Microplastics ...

Japanese researchers have developed shopping bags made from potato starch that dissolve in water and leave no microplastics ...

(Nanowerk News) Microplastics—small fragments of plastics less than 5mm across—now infiltrate every corner of our planet, from remote regions of the deep ocean and the Arctic, to the very air we ...

Japan has developed a new kind of shopping bag that looks ordinary but behaves very differently from plastic. These bags are made from potato starch, a natural material taken from potatoes. When the ...