A team of Japanese researchers has developed a plastic material that disappears in seawater within hours, leaving no harmful residues. Designed to be more environmentally friendly than ...

Used in everything from water bottles to medical devices to building materials to clothes; plastic is a given in our daily lives. Yet, only about 9 per cent of plastic is recycled — the rest ends up ...

Nick Blackmer is a librarian, fact-checker, and researcher with more than 20 years of experience in consumer-facing health and wellness content. Many plastic dishes and storage containers are ...

Seabirds have been fishing plastic from the ocean and feeding it to their chicks, researchers say. One bird was found to have ingested nearly 800 pieces.

Numbers on Plastic: What They Mean and If They're Safe for Food. Medically reviewed by Jerlyn Jones, MS MPA RDN LD CLT — Written by Sarah Matysiak on May 15, 2025. Types, uses, recyclability; ...

Plastic may be warming the planet more than we thought Most models haven’t accounted for how microplastics may increase global warming by disrupting natural cycles that store carbon. May 14, 2025 ...

Plastic is melted into an oil, and the chemical company gets a credit for “recycling.” Most of this oil is not turned into new bottles, but instead is burned as fuel.

Much of the U.S. uses single-stream recycling, where plastic, glass and paper go into one bin. Here’s what happens to that material and ways engineering is trying to improve the process ...

A new ocean-dissolvable plastic from Japan breaks down overnight with no microplastics left behind – safe, strong, and eco-friendly innovation for the future.

The scourge of plastic pollution is nothing new. Natural polymers such as rubber and cellulose were widely used before synthetic plastics emerged with the Belgian chemist Leo Baekeland’s invention of ...

According to his sources, Apple’s design team “doesn’t like the look” of a watch made of plastic, while the operations team concluded that using plastic wouldn’t reduce costs considerably.

His team also found low levels of albumin—a protein made by the liver—in the blood of birds with more plastic in their stomachs. The low levels may indicate liver or kidney dysfunction.