Sleeping on dirty hotel sheets can not only make you uncomfortable but also potentially expose you to germs and allergens.

For those that have owned a clear phone case, you've likely seen it turn a yellowish hue over time. That said, it's likely ...

The removal of a containment curtain — installed in Clear Lake last month in the fight against invasive zebra mussels — has cottagers at the popular Manitoba destination concerned for the future.

With emissions spiralling and health impacts mounting, the time for half-measures is over, say experts; India must confront the scale of its plastic pollution Despite ongoing efforts to curb ...

Apple today discontinued its ill-received FineWoven material, introducing no new cases that use the leather replacement. The company has also removed existing FineWoven iPhone cases for older ...

Put another way, that’s about 57 million tons (52 million metric tons) of plastic waste that was not properly disposed of—and pieces of it could now be floating in the ocean, sitting at the ...

Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. A new study finds that every year people create 57 million tons of plastic pollution. The material ends up ...

Clear plastic water bottles made of polyethylene tetraphthalate (PET), a polyester, were designed in the 1980s to be recycled this way. But the volume of polyester plastics is minuscule compared ...

During 2020, the world threw away over 250 million tonnes of plastic. A fifth of this plastic pollution was dumped straight into the environment, as many nations struggle to keep up with the mounting ...

Despite the planet’s growing plastic pollution crisis, petroleum-based polymers have become an integral part of modern life. They make cars and airplanes lighter and more energy efficient.

An innovative chemical procedure turns ubiquitous waste plastic items in our society into hydrocarbon building blocks for use in making new plastics. The scientists behind the project explained ...