Recycling bin filled with plastic bottles emphasizes waste management and environmental awareness. Image in public domain.

Hundreds of millions of tons of plastic are produced globally every year. New research shows how that waste can be turned ...

The breakthrough offers a promising new approach to reducing plastic pollution through photocatalysis, a metabolic pathway ...

The approach harnesses the power of bacteria to transform post-consumer plastic into L-DOPA, a frontline medication for the ...

A drug to treat Parkinson's disease can be made from waste plastic bottles using a pioneering method, a study shows. The ...

A new process that converts PET plastic into monomer building blocks, which can be recycled into new PET products or upcycled into higher value materials. Harnessing moisture from air, Northwestern ...

Chemists and innovative recyclers are trying to turn gloves, pipette tips, and other laboratory plastic waste into something ...

Plastics are inescapable in our daily lives. The vast amounts of plastic garbage heaped in landfills and in the environment, however, are as problematic as the plastics are useful. A research team has ...

Throwing your plastic bottles in the recycling bin may make you feel good about yourself, or ease your guilt about your ...