Scientists from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory are winners of the 2024 Gizmodo Science Fair for creating a plastic that can be infinitely recycled. Can you design a new type of plastic that ...

HARARE — At Mbare marketplace, a major trading hub in Zimbabwe's capital city, plastic bags are everywhere. Vendors stack ...

— -- Here is one word about an up-and-coming innovation in plastics: cornfields. Bioplastics — most of which are now made from corn — are poised to grab a bigger share of the plastics market as ...

Australia's recycling system has been lurching from one crisis to another for decades. Soft-plastic schemes are collapsing, ...

In 45 million households across America—upwards of 40% of the country— the first thing people do when they wake up is make a beeline to their Keurig machine for their morning cup of coffee. Then, they ...

All plastics eventually fade when exposed to the environment, but if your car’s trim is starting to look gray and sad, the best trim restorers can help to revive it. This weathering is a complicated ...

I used to love my Teflon pans. I crisped tofu, fried latkes, and reduced sauces to sticky glazes in them, marveling at how cleanup never took more than a swipe of a sponge. Then I started to worry ...

Ms. Chaudhuri is a journalist in London and the author of the forthcoming book “Consumed: How Big Brands Got Us Hooked on Plastic.” In 1957, 92 percent of American children were potty-trained by 18 ...

Deep within the world's oceans lurk marine bacteria armed with plastic-munching enzymes, their evolution seemingly sculpted ...