Mr Trump told reporters at the White House that “we’re going back to plastic straws” as he signed the executive order ...

US start-up MacroCycle Technologies has raised US$ 6.5 million (EUR 6.2 million) to advance its chemical recycling process.

Nearly seven years ago, two doctoral students at Brandeis worried about how much plastic was being thrown away from the university’s labs. So they turned the problem into a business venture ...

However, with yearly global plastic production exceeding 400 million ... before they are ready for adoption on an industrial scale. In a study published in Nature Communications online on 29 ...