Or disheartened when you find that your trim has rotted and will no longer hold paint? Then step back and consider the ...

Chemists have developed a catalytic process that turns the largest component of today's plastic waste stream, polyolefin plastic bags and bottles, into gases -- propylene and isobutylene -- that ...

Wright Waste Management in northwest Houston is under fire for reportedly failing to recycle your plastics. Brandy Deason works with the non-profit Air Alliance Houston as the Climate Justice ...

These tiny plastic particles can range in size from 5 millimeters (as small as a pencil eraser) to 1 nanometer, which can’t be seen with the naked eye, the Environmental Protection Agency ...

Roughly 10 years after California tried and failed to ban plastic bags at grocery stores, state lawmakers have passed a law that they say will forever end the choice of “paper or plastic” in ...

Employees of the Institute of Chemistry of Kazan Federal University and the Kazan National Research Technical University have produced especially strong carbon plastics based on phosphate binders ...

As sea turtles often eat invertebrates like jellyfish or sponges, they show a strong preference for clear, sheet plastic items, like plastic bags, balloons, food wrappers and films. But that doesn’t ...