The largest part on display on the booth of Aichach, Germany-based mold maker Deckerform Technologies GmbH during Fakuma 2024 ...

Long-distance walker David Lintern thoroughly tests the best hiking backpacks in the 60+ litre range to help guide your ...

Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians who have been displaced multiple times from Israeli airstrikes across the Gaza Strip ...

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Plastics can contain thousands of different chemicals, many of them linked to cancer and reproductive harm, and many never tested for safety. Multiple studies are now finding these chemicals ...

Pathogens hitching a ride The ocean is another destination for microplastics, which often drift in runoff and wastewater. Researchers have estimated that more than 170 trillion plastic particles ...

That’s the alarming message from a new study published in the journal Chemosphere. Cooking with any plastic utensil has long been seen as worrisome because heat can cause chemicals in the ...

In simple terms, Liu's system was two steps. It first involved using thermolysis, or breaking down a substance—in this case, plastic—by using heat. Plastic placed in a reactor built by Liu's ...

Microplastics are pieces of plastic less than 5 millimeters across, shown here in sand washed up on a beach. (Getty) While photos of littered beaches and floating garbage patches are unsettling, ...

and nylon, commonly used for kitchen utensils, also contained concerning levels, says Liu, who notes that products may be mislabeled, as the researchers discovered while testing the plastic polymers.

When it comes to recycling plastics, size matters. Most small plastics don’t get recycled, and putting them in your bins could end up doing more harm than good, said Susan Collins, president of ...

Meanwhile, plastic pollution could nearly double, reaching 121 million metric tons, according to the study. In such a business-as-usual scenario, the world would amass sufficient waste between ...