There are few excuses left for polluting our environment with plastics – and the UK can lead the charge towards a more ...

A team of Japanese researchers has developed a plastic material that disappears in seawater within hours, leaving no harmful residues. Designed to be more environmentally friendly than ...

Hobbyists commonly feed this type of filament into commercial desktop 3D printers, which heat the plastic and extrude it in a computer-controlled way to fabricate new plastic parts.

Ideally, packaging will consist of as much recycled material as possible. New EU regulations also require plastic packaging to be made from up to 35% recycled material at a minimum by 2030. Enter the ...

4. Replace Plastic Scrubs. Ditch those plastic dish scrubbers. They may seem insignificant, but they shed microplastics every time you use them. Instead, choose compostable sponges, bamboo scrubbers, ...

One consumer product, a black plastic sushi tray, contained 11,900 parts per million of decaBDE, which is in the polybrominated diphenyl ethers, or PBDE, class of flame retardants.. Levels of PBDE ...

If world leaders leave global plastic use and waste policies as is, annual plastics-related GHG emissions will swell from the current level of about 2.75 billion metric tons to 3.35 billion metric ...

This computer-generated image depicts the amount of plastic waste scientists expect to be produced globally by 2050 if no action is taken to reduce it.

Listen to more stories on the Noa app. For the past several years, I’ve been telling my friends what I’m going to tell you: Throw out your black plastic spatula. In a world of plastic consumer ...

The new HP computer packaging was guided by a three-pronged approach the company uses for all package development, which is to “eliminate, innovate, and prioritize,” Christensen explains. As a ...

The FBI warned of cybercriminals using spoofed emails and phone numbers to target plastic surgery offices across the United States for extortion in phishing attacks that spread malware.