Plastic pollution is a problem, and scientists have been searching for biodegradable options for years. But this novel ...

What are you supposed to do with Mardi Gras beads after you catch them? How about planting them in your garden – new LSU ...

The research is the first to project the environmental impact of biodegradable plastics through their entire lifecycle at a global scale ...

According to the official OECD estimates on global plastic pollution, out of all the plastic waste generated per annum, only 9% is recycled. The rest contaminates water bodies, soil, the air we ...

Plastic is an essential material in the modern world, but it's also environmentally costly to produce and a major pollutant. A material called pyridinedicarboxylic acid, or PDCA, could help address at ...

In a huge step in the fight against microplastics, researchers working at the RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science (CEMS) ...

Old trees are learning new tricks with the advent of composite materials. A "green composite" made from biodegradable ...

The world has a big plastic problem that it's yet to fix. We're trying to reduce our reliance on plastic, but that's seemingly impossible in modern society. The material is too important for our daily ...

A nitrogen cycling bacterium turns toxic solvent wastewater into biodegradable plastic, using the solvent itself to block competing microbes and enable stable nonsterile production. (Nanowerk ...

In agricultural production, microplastics have become environmental pollutants that cannot be ignored. They may not only enter the food chain through the soil-plant system, threatening food safety, ...

Dangerous concentrations of algae such as "red tides" have been consistently emerging in locations around the world. A region ...