More trial-and-error helped the team uncover the organic salt choline chloride, a government-approved food additive. The ...

Plastic is everywhere in modern society. While it has paved the way for enormous progress, the pollution it leaves behind is ...

Dr. Michael Ponting is Chief Scientific Officer at Peak Nano, a leading innovator in advanced capacitor films, specialty films, and optics. "One word: plastics." That single line from The Graduate ...

Existing electroactive materials are hard, rigid, and often made from non-sustainable, toxic substances, making them impractical for use in soft, flexible electronics, wearable technology, and ...

Researchers in Germany are set to turn green waste, hay and algae into fully biodegradable plastics. They believe such ...

The inconvenience of separating plastics for recycling may soon be a thing of the past. A team of Korean researchers has developed the world's first technology that can chemically recycle mixed waste ...

NEW YORK, NY / ACCESS Newswire / September 17, 2025 / Every industry has its white whale, the problem that defies solution year after year. For the recycling world, that problem has always been carbon ...

Single-use plastics revolutionized the medical industry. Now, they’re raising concerns about sustainability. Medical syringes and ampoules of plastic waste. The 20th century brought airplanes, radio, ...

Recycling single use plastic grocery bags into bricks and other sustainable materials could reduce pollution along highways and landfills, according to a former New Mexican who views environment ...

Used in everything from water bottles to medical devices to building materials to clothes; plastic is a given in our daily lives. Yet, only about 9 per cent of plastic is recycled — the rest ends up ...

The world is moving towards a circular economy and net-zero emissions. Post-consumer products are looked forward to remaining in the value chain for recycling, including carbon fibre composites. The ...

Plastic is cheap to make and shockingly profitable. It’s everywhere. And we’re all paying the price. On a Saturday last summer, I kayaked up a Connecticut river from the coast, buoyed by the rising ...