From legendary trash talk to playing left-handed just for fun, the stories about Larry Bird are almost too crazy to believe. But former players confirm—they’re all real. Bird wasn’t just a great ...

President Donald Trump signed an executive order to reverse a federal push away from plastic straws, declaring that paper ...

More than 390 million plastic straws are used every day in the United States, most for 30 minutes or less, according to ...

Micro- and nanoscale plastic particles in soil and water can significantly increase how much toxic chemicals plants and human intestinal cells absorb, according to two new studies from Rutgers Health ...

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

Additionally, they observed that much of the plastic appears to be much smaller than previously appreciated – in the nanometer scale, about two to three times the size of viruses. The findings ...

Image source: dottedyeti / Adobe Traditional recycling struggles to compete with the cost of producing new plastic. There’s simply no economic incentive for industries to invest in large-scale ...

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 ...