An open tender has been launched by the Waste & Resources Action Programme inviting bids which will increase the use of recycled plastic materials within the Electrical and Electronic Equipment ...

We've all heard about plastic pollution in our oceans, but what about the plastic particles quietly building up inside our bodies? A major European research project called PlasticHeal has taken a deep ...

Three months ago, five gifted students from St. Anne-Pacelli Catholic School started sacrificing after-school time and Saturdays to come up with a winning project idea that would combat a problem in ...

That’s how many black plastic food trays are used every year at Burlingame, according to sophomore Ashlyn Wong. She and ...

A new nonprofit group has formed with a simple message embedded in its name: No Plastic Filter. The campaign intends to unite "voices across the planet for a ban on plastic cigarette filters." ...

The new Horizon Europe-funded GRECO project provides innovative biobased, biodegradable and recyclable food packaging based on novel PLA copolymers, functional coatings, additives and green catalysts.

The aim is to be able to process them using conventional technologies so that they can be used in applications that are currently occupied by petroleum-derived plastics. The companies Venvirotech and ...

Global plastic demand is projected to double by 2050, along with proportional increases in greenhouse gas emissions and pollution from mismanaged waste. Currently, over 99% of the plastics produced in ...

Mango Materials, a California-based company that creates biodegradable polymers for use in plastic products, has been scaling up and commercializing a biomanufacturing technology that utilizes methane ...

IRVING, TX – The Plastics Pipe Institute, Inc. (PPI) has announced the winners of its Projects and Members of the Year. The award-winning 2024 projects included the tallest building in Texas, the ...

Since plastic began to be mass-produced in the 1950s, the material has been building up in the environment and in people’s bodies. These six graphs illustrate just how bad the problem has gotten, and ...