When plastic entered the design world in the 20th century, it was hailed as a wonder material—something strong, durable, lightweight, affordable, and malleable enough to sculpt into expressive, ...

Moving towards a more sustainable, eco-friendly lifestyle is something that's important to me, as I know it is for a lot of people. One way I've been trying to achieve this goal is by cutting way back ...

Plastic that behaves like a sturdy fork on your picnic table and then quietly melts back into the soil sounds like science ...

Scientists have found a way to turn common agricultural materials into bioplastics that can be "infinitely recyclable." According to Interesting Engineering, the U.S. National Science Foundation has ...

TerraSafe, a North Carolina-based materials innovation company, has announced its merger with DisSolves, a dissolvable film packaging startup. The comapy combination paves the way for two plastic-free ...

Americans, on average, toss out about three quarters of a pound of plastic each day, according to researchers at Oxford University. Most of that trash winds up in a landfill. As someone who loves ...

Many large consumer product companies are falling short of the plastics recycling targets they set several years ago. Observers say this failure has contributed to hard times for the companies that ...

Every single dental care product you use is made from plastic — no, that’s not an exaggeration. Toothbrushes have plastic handles and bristles. Floss thread is essentially a plastic string packed in a ...

Anne McNeil currently receives funding from Microsoft, the Vinyl Institute, the Department of Energy, and the National Science Foundation. Alex Zhukhovitskiy receives funding from the Department of ...

In Seattle, as in most cities around the country, there are a number of items that you aren’t supposed to put in the curbside recycling bin: bubble wrap, for instance, or multilayer plastic packaging ...