You brush twice daily, floss religiously and see your dentist every six months. But what if these acts of oral hygiene are quietly contributing to one of the planet's most pressing environmental ...

Plastic bags are convenient, but the planet pays the price. This video dives into the environmental impact of plastic bags, ...

Scientists at the plastic technology center AIMPLAS are working hard to decrease our reliance on plastic. The team is "addressing this issue through innovative technologies such as physicochemical ...

Reducing plastic use this year should be on everyone’s radar, although it won’t be easy. According to the United Nations, “humanity produces over 430 million tonnes of plastic every year – two-thirds ...

KAMPALA, Uganda — In Uganda's Mbale district, famous for its production of arabica coffee, a plague of plastic bags locally known as buveera is creeping beyond the city. It's a problem that has long ...

KTLA’s new ocean conservation series ‘Saving Our Seas’ dives into one of the largest and most worrisome issues facing our planet… the plastic problem. It’s a compounding catastrophe that has already ...

Researchers create supercapacitors from waste PET plastic bottles that could power electric vehicles and electronics within 5 to 10 years.

Sahadat Hossain, a civil engineering professor at the University of Texas at Arlington, shows a sample of recycled plastic in asphalt and a bag of recycled plastic used to make the asphalt, May 1, ...

Our home is not as old as Dick Van Dyke, but does share a birth year with Chuck Norris (1940), which means it will probably last forever by sheer determination, stalwart character and a heaping ...

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