Bamboo is a highly renewable resource, and its cellulose fibres can be turned into a hard, mouldable plastic for use in cars ...

A new method to produce strong, biodegradable plastic from bamboo is reported in Nature Communications this week. The ...

A team of South Korean scientists have produced the polymers used for everyday plastics through bioengineering, rather than through the use of fossil fuel-based chemicals. It is believed that the ...

Scientists turned bamboo into a strong, recyclable, and biodegradable plastic that can replace regular plastic.

Not-so-fun fact: our oceans hold 150 times more carbon dioxide than the Earth's atmosphere. Adding to that causes ocean ...

OPINION: "Recycling doesn't address any of plastic's human and environmental impacts. It's essentially another form of ...

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 ...

Hopes of securing a United Nations treaty on plastic pollution are fading after the final round of negotiations ended without ...

The notice offered a $10,000 prize to anyone who could invent a substitute for ivory in billiard balls. Playing pool was a booming leisure activity at the time, but the demand for ivory was already ...

Italian eyewear group Safilo said on Monday it plans to produce sunglasses made with recycled plastic from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch (GPGP), the largest of five plastic islands floating in the ...

Knowing your symbols makes it easier to reuse and recycle. Groups 1, 2, and 5 are easy to recycle curbside, but groups 4, 6, and 7 are more difficult.