Microplastics are everywhere, including in some of your favorite foods and drinks. Check out these steps you can take to cut down on plastic particles.

A new discovery offers a promising way to break down stubborn plastics like Plexiglass into their original building blocks, ...

The team created the mortar by replacing a portion of natural sand with a mixture of silica aerogel particles and shredded ...

Avantium and Amcor are collaborating to create plant-based PEF plastic containers for diverse products, with Amcor reserving ...

Avantium has signed a joint development agreement with Amcor to explore the use of Avantium's plant-based polymer PEF - ...

Scientists have found methods to convert plastic waste into valuable chemicals. One approach breaks plastics into olefins for ...

The researchers identified 12 different types of plastic within the samples. The most common was polyethylene, which is used, among other things, to make plastic bottles and cups. Microplastics tend ...

Tired of all the dire political news? How about some dire medical news instead - scientists just discovered your brain is a landfill for tiny plastic particles - with concentrations up to 30 times ...

More and more tiny plastic particles are accumulating in the body's tissues. The load in the brain is particularly high, as a study by the University ...

Most of the plastics found were nano-sized shards or flakes of polyethylene ... protective filter called the blood-brain barrier that blocks many harmful pathogens and toxins.

These are typically made from various forms of polyethylene ... involve unpicking a plastic’s polymer chains to recover the constituent chemical building blocks, or monomers.

Most of the plastics found were nano-sized shards or flakes of polyethylene, which is used in plastic bags ... the human brain has a protective filter called the blood-brain barrier that blocks many ...