On a pristine beach in Gippsland, a team of scientists are dumping plastic rubbish. Their littering is extremely precise. When they're done, 14 squares of trash — each exactly 2 square metres ...

If you have a black spatula in your kitchen, or other black plastic items around your house like takeout containers or children’s toys, they could contain high levels of toxic flame retardants.

A green tech company based in Sweden, PlasticFri, has developed a technology that offers consumers an eco-friendly and plant-based alternative to plastic. This video is from BBC Click ...

Produced by ElevenLabs and News Over Audio (NOA) using AI narration. For the past several years, I’ve been telling my friends what I’m going to tell you: Throw out your black plastic spatula.

Alternatives to petrochemical-based plastics are emerging, made from everything from banana leaves to tomato skins, especially for food packaging. But questions remain about how biodegradable and ...

Countries gathered in Colombia to work on a treaty to end plastic pollution must strive for “an ambitious, credible and just” deal that responds to the needs of communities everywhere, including some ...

of Commerce on aluminum extrusion imports from 14 countries. In early October, Commerce completed a yearlong investigation determining that the domestic aluminum extrusion industry wasn’t able to ...

Advanced biodegradable plastics run rings around their predecessors New plastics with both improved toughness and biodegradability by including movable ring-based crosslinks Date: October 29, 2024 ...

As the plastics treaty heads toward the finish line, the debate over limits or caps on virgin resin production has gotten louder, with the Biden administration and now some global businesses ...

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine will establish a Roundtable on Plastics that will provide a forum for examining issues associated with national efforts to reduce plastic ...