Researchers have identified more than 600,000 microbial proteins capable of breaking down natural and synthetic plastics, ...

The Environmental Protection Agency is reconsidering whether facilities that recycle plastic chemically should be held to the ...

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Researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory developed a method to convert a commonly discarded ...

In award-winning journalist Beth Gardiner’s new book, ‘Plastic Inc.,’ she traces how plastic went from a wartime miracle to ...

How did plastic become so ubiquitous? The answer lies deep beneath the surface of the earth. In her new book Plastic Inc., ...

A UMD professor is working to make drainage infrastructure more sustainable by using recycled plastics in pipes.

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Robots, recycled plastic and ribbon-cutting all shared the stage on Tuesday as Azure Printed Homes officially fired up its ...