In reworking the connections within plastic materials, researchers are studying how plant-based compounds could eventually ...

For decades, plastic has been designed to last, not to leave. The result is a planet laced with microplastics that persist in ...

Researchers are trying to understand how microplastics affect our bodies. Our world is filled with plastics. Every time we use plastic, whether in tires, clothing or bags, tiny particles are left ...

Microplastics are often named as a major polluter of both the planet and our bodies, but what does the actual science say?

Plastic pollution is not just in oceans and soil. Scientists have now found enormous amounts of microscopic plastic floating through urban air, far exceeding earlier estimates. Road dust and rainfall ...

"The brain microplastic paper is a joke." The post Wait… All Those Studies May Have “Detected” Microplastics in the Human ...

Waste isn’t new, and neither is humanity’s role in creating it. Since the dawn of industrialization, our ability to pollute has scaled alongside our innovations. In 1862, British inventor and ...

When you outlaw or discourage the sale of plastic bags, fewer of them end up as litter on beaches. That’s the intuitive finding of a paper published Thursday in the journal Science, which involved an ...

If you've ever unloaded a dishwasher and found everything sparkling dry, except for that one plastic container still clinging to a puddle of water, well, you're not alone. It's one of those everyday ...

SINCE 2022, Holcim Philippines has been advancing its commitment to sustainability and circularity through the Circular Explorer, a pioneering solar-powered catamaran designed to recover marine litter ...