Researchers built tough, compostable bacterial cellulose sheets that rival metals in strength. The material handles heat, and ...

Plastic is not only littering Louisville roads and waterways, it is impacting our health. Join the global 'Plastic Free July' movement.

Amid a global plastic-pollution crisis, artist Erik Jon Olson turns his own plastic waste into quilted works of art in which ...

The WNBA All-Star Weekend at Gainbridge Fieldhouse will mark a league first: a game played entirely with reusable beverage cups.

A new Europe-focused study reveals that polyethylene (PE), the most widely used packaging material in Europe, has lower life ...

Sunscreen chemicals like EHMC may be silently increasing ocean plastic pollution by strengthening harmful microbial biofilms ...

The millions of tons of plastics, microplastics, and nanoplastics dumped into the environment over the last several decades ...

Nanoplastics—particles smaller than a human hair—can pass through cell walls and enter the food web. New research suggest 27 ...

Marine plastic litter tends to grab headlines, with images of suffocating seabirds or bottles washing up along coastlines. A study published today reveals yet another hidden source of this deadly ...

A leading expert in the health impacts of plastic pollution and microplastics is calling on the UN to end the use of toxic ...

Filtered water at Bengaluru restaurants may not be as safe as assumed. A study finds that over 50% samples are contaminated ...

A new $65 million Clean-Seas West Virginia facility in Quincy is set to convert plastic waste into fuel using a controversial ...