Plastic waste is a problem. Most plastics can’t be recycled, and many use finite, polluting petrochemicals as the basic ingredients. But that’s changing. In a study published in Nature Sustainability, ...
Scientists from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory are winners of the 2024 Gizmodo Science Fair for creating a plastic that can be infinitely recycled. Can you design a new type of plastic that ...
Environmental activist Diane Wilson shows plastic pellets that pollute the Gulf coast of Texas - Copyright GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA/AFP/File Angela WEISS ...
Scientists engineered microbes to make the ingredients for recyclable plastics -- replacing finite, polluting petrochemicals with sustainable alternatives. The new approach shows that renewable, ...