The Cornwall-based Surfers Against Sewage campaign group continues to call for a total ban on single-use plastic - including ...

A group of scientists in Japan has created a new form of plastic that combines the strength required for everyday use with ...

He didn’t want to break down in tears before the job was done. Clanton stood over a birdie putt at the 18th and fist-pumped as he poured it in. Then came the release. He put his head in his ...

Plastics are everywhere—from your phone case to the containers holding your food. They're cheap, light, and strong, which ...

Japanese scientists at RIKEN CEMS, led by Takuzo Aida, have developed a new supramolecular plastic that maintains strength in ...

Irradiation can also complement and enhance traditional recycling methods. When combined with a chemical recycling method ...

How do you take apart a whale? With flensing knives, meat hooks, plastic sleds and a crowd of people. On Thursday, dozens of volunteers gathered on the Anchorage mudflats to cut apart the 47-foot-long ...

Plastics are durable and strong, which is great while they’re being used but frustrating when they end up in the environment.

“That appears to be breaking down in the United States today,” she said. She also warned that similar dangers lurk at home in Austria. “We came very close to having an anti-science party or ...

Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore splashed down in the Gulf of Mexico with two other astronauts. A SpaceX spaceship splashed down in the Gulf of Mexico on Tuesday carrying precious cargo ...

Plastic nurdles may have spilled from damaged containers on a stricken ship involved in last week’s North Sea collision and ...

Pyrolysis breaks down plastic and generates potentially useful oil − but it’s not a silver bullet for the planet.