Karnataka government plans to establish plastic parks in Mangaluru and Vijayapura, boosting the states plastic sector and ...

Yuwei Gu was hiking through Bear Mountain State Park in New York when inspiration struck. Plastic bottles littered the trail and more floated on a nearby lake. The jarring sight in such a pristine ...

Cheap, strong, and versatile, plastic seemed like the perfect invention—until its staying power turned into a global headache ...

KraussMaffei extruders enable scalable polymer recycling with rates up to 6,000 pounds per hour using modular systems ...

The Karnataka government is taking steps to accelerate the growth of the state's plastic sector by establishing dedicated plastic parks in Mangaluru and in Vijayapura district, equipped with ...

Rutgers scientists have developed plastics that can be programmed to break down at specific rates by drawing on a natural principle. Their approach could provide a meaningful new way to tackle the ...

From balloons to wrapping paper, everyone tends to produce more waste this time of year. We asked two scientists for tips on ...

A polymer is a substance made of many repeating units linked together, like beads on a string. Plastics are polymers, and so are natural materials such as DNA, RNA and proteins. DNA and RNA are ...

Much as an intentional fold primes paper for predictable tearing, the researchers tinkered to create manipulable weak points ...

The Polymer Industry Cluster announced five new projects that will receive funding from the Ohio Department of Development ...

Unlike their mid-century ancestors, today's plastics are being reimagined through ultra-thin layering at the molecular level.

Researchers have discovered that microplastics floating in rivers, lakes, and oceans continuously leak a complex mixture of ...