“At a time of climatic and economic instability, people in southern Britain turned to feasting,” said study co-author Richard ...

Scientists at the University of Copenhagen have developed BAETA, a new material made from upcycled PET plastic that ...

Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to [email protected]. Will we eventually have to send our trash into ...

Unlike brute-force methods like pyrolysis — where plastics are baked at 400–700°C until they crack into random goo — this ...

Plastics are inescapable in our daily lives. The vast amounts of plastic garbage heaped in landfills and in the environment, however, are as problematic as the plastics are useful. A research team has ...

Plastic trash is a problem. In the USA, each person produces an average of 100kg of plastic waste per year. Single-use ...

Experts estimate that the global production and disposal of plastics emits nearly 2 billion tons of greenhouse gases per year ...

Recently, researchers from Yale University may have made a dent in that inefficiency. They successfully tested a novel way to ...

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