A Curtin University-led paper, "The Use of Plastic as a Household Fuel among the Urban Poor in the Global South" published in ...

A new type of adhesive that can be cleanly removed from plastic bottles and packaging before disposal could lead to ...

Companies use flame-retardant enclosures on lithium-ion batteries to meet flammability standards, but are the chemicals used in these enclosures safe?

Trump signed an Executive Order to end the use of paper straws. Here’s what to know about the history of plastic straws.

Rutgers Health researchers find that tiny plastic particles increase the absorption of environmental arsenic and pesticides ...

Could balloon-like water tanks help California prepare for fires? Some call an energy company’s “Water Trees” a game-changing ...

A new study finds that microplastics and nanoplastics accumulate at higher levels in the brain than in the liver and kidney.

because almost every load has bagged items or random plastics that can’t be recycled. “I think sometimes people just feel their trash carts are full, so they’ll take a bag and just throw it ...

“Historically, flame retardant use to meet flammability standards has resulted in documented health risks without ...

Cars speeding along a smooth, black-colored street in Nepal's Pokhara are also driving over heaps of discarded plastic, transformed into an ingredient in road construction. Nepal's urban areas ...

Court TV could have switched to all-plastics programming in 2024, and that's not a good thing. Some of the year's top plastics stories happened inside courtrooms. We had New York suing Pepsi over ...

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