Polypropylene and polyethylene are two durable and affordable plastics commonly used as packaging materials, snack wrappers, ...

Agricultural plastic mulch films are widely used around the world to increase crop yields, conserve soil moisture, and suppress weeds. However, once these films are discarded, they can persist in the ...

Agricultural plastic mulch films are widely used around the world to increase crop yields, conserve soil moisture, and suppress weeds. However, once ...

Company briefings to local officials have put the Eloy plant’s capital cost in the low-hundreds of millions of dollars.

Although plastic particles in the air are increasingly coming into focus, knowledge about their distribution and effects is still limited. Chemical analyses from Leipzig now provide details from ...

Prostate tumors contain more microplastics than healthy prostate tissue, researchers from New York University Langone Health ...

Scientists at the University of Buffalo (USA) have developed an innovative method for recycling flexible plastics, which ...

Circtec says its plant in Delfzijl, the Netherlands, will use pyrolysis technology to process some 50,000 metric tons per year of end-of-life tires.

Composition, interactions and resulting inhalation risk of micro- and nano-plastics in urban air. Commun Earth Environ 6, 985 (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s43247-025-02980-0 This research was funded by the ...

It can shape buying decisions. New investigation reveals how major food brands are misleading shoppers: 'This is unfair to consumers' first appeared on The Cool Down.

Concentration of plastics was 2.5 times higher in cancerous tissue versus benign tissue ...