Plastic waste has let common coots reuse nests year after year. Scientists have now used the trash layers to date how old nests are.

When using plastic bags to store food there are certain instances in which you can reuse them, such as when they are being ...

Plastic pyrolysis is a chemical process that involves chemically breaking down plastics into other molecules by heating the plastics to extremely high temperatures in the absence of oxygen.

Some researchers have estimated that people consume between 39,000 and 52,000 microplastic particles each year. If we add how much we take in when breathing, that number goes up to 74,000 to 121,000.

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"This new process enables biodegradable plastics to be efficiently recycled." Amazon's latest packaging change could shake up ...

A new effort to ban the use of plastic bags has begun in the state Legislature. Rep. Maureen Madden, D-Tannersville, along with fellow Democrat Reps. Tarik Khan, Mandy Steele and Greg Scott, are ...

A log of Courts Service incidents and accidents for 2024 also disclosed how a knife was found stashed inside a courtroom in a plastic bag, in a separate incident, while another person tried to ...

KUALA LUMPUR: Asia Poly Holdings Bhd ’s biogas project in Jeli, Kelantan has received the feed-in approval from the government to supply power to Tenaga Nasional for 21 years at a feed-in-tariff ...

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