Sharina Perry traveled a winding road to get to the front of the pack in developing a material that acts like plastic, but ...

There are loads of different types of plastic. Plastic fibres can even be used to make clothes like swimsuits, or space suits! Just look at this hospital. Plastic surfaces and chairs that are easy ...

and four different plastics in the form of fragmenta (another type of secondary microplastic). They added microplastics at a similar concentration to that of soils exposed to high levels of human ...

Sobkowicz-Kline says current film materials are not recyclable because they are composed of layers of different plastics, and thus are challenging to collect, separate, clean and reprocess. “While ...