Marine fungi isolated from around O'ahu eating polyurethane plastic. The translucent halos around the fungal plugs on the Petri dish show the areas of plastic degradation. Plastic is the most ...

Order and disorder of bubbles in a surface foam. Image by Kempf EK - Own work, CC BY 4.0. Order and disorder of bubbles in a surface foam. Image by Kempf EK - Own work, CC BY 4.0. By using ‘green ...

The bio-based material completely breaks down after seven months. Scientists may have found the answer to manufacturing plastics products that actually break down without forming into microplastics, ...

On average, Americans eat, drink, inhale, and absorb through their skin a credit card’s worth of microplastics each week. And, because these tiny particles don’t naturally dissolve in the body, this ...