"UMass Lowell is among the nation's leading centers for plastics technology, and its Plastics Engineering program...is helping to push new boundaries of how these versatile materials are used, ...

Source: Marek Pavlik / Unsplash Microplastics have become an unavoidable part of our daily life, embedded in packaging and clothing, and found in our oceans, in the air we breathe, and in the water we ...

Plastic is one of the most remarkable materials ever created. It’s cheap, lightweight and endlessly versatile. It can be shaped into anything from shopping bags to lifesaving tools in hospitals, and ...

The latest UN plastics treaty collapse underscored what markets already know: a $400 billion stranded asset risk that forward-thinking petrochemical leaders must now confront strategically. While ...

Since plastic began to be mass-produced in the 1950s, the material has been building up in the environment and in people’s bodies. These six graphs illustrate just how bad the problem has gotten, and ...

Mr. Franklin-Wallis is the author of “Wasteland: The Secret World of Waste and the Urgent Search for a Cleaner Future” and an editor at GQ. This essay is part of a series on environmental health. What ...

Robbie has been an avid gamer for well over 20 years. During that time, he's watched countless franchises rise and fall. He's a big RPG fan but dabbles in a little bit of everything. Writing about ...

Plastic pollution exacerbates the impacts of all planetary boundaries, including climate change, ocean acidification and biodiversity loss, a new paper shows. Ahead of the final negotiations of the ...

Two weeks after historic flooding overtook Impact Plastics in Erwin, Tennessee, investigations are continuing into the company that was unknown to many until at least five of its employees were killed ...

LEGO announced plans Wednesday to scale up its use of renewable plastics in the production of its signature bricks, marking a shift away from its reliance on fossil fuels. LEGO has set 2032 as its ...

President Biden announced a new goal Friday to phase out the purchasing and use of single-use plastics across the federal government by 2035. “Communities across the United States and around the world ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Emerging research shows that plant-based plastics — just like petroleum-based plastics — contain many thousands of synthetic chemicals, with large ...