Polypropylene and polyethylene are two durable and affordable plastics commonly used as packaging materials, snack wrappers, ...

Sunlight hits tiny particles of plastic floating in a clear water solution. Slowly, they begin to disappear, leaving behind a ...

In this world, plastic is the most stubborn waste. Normally, the plastic waste gets disposed of via municipal collection, ...

In A Nutshell Researchers at Tokyo University of Science developed a method to create fluorescent, irregularly shaped ...

New studies suggest the energy efficient and eco-friendly approach could help reuse millions of tons of plastics.

By bno - Taipei Office The war involving Iran, Israel and the United States has started to reverberate through Asia’s plastics and petrochemicals markets, tightening supplies, pushing up prices and ...

Every year, the world uses roughly 37 billion barrels of oil. Most is burned to power cars, trucks, planes, ships and other types of transport. For more than a century, this energy-dense hydrocarbon ...

The breakthrough offers a promising new approach to reducing plastic pollution through photocatalysis, a metabolic pathway ...

Many teabag manufacturers abandoned petroleum-based plastics but plastic remains an issue?

Scientists have found a way to turn plastic into acetic acid using a source that's present in abundance.