UD chemical engineer wins the AIChE Langer Prize for efforts to harness biology to manage plastic waste sustainably ...

The ocean surface retains a stubborn trace of our plastic waste. Even if we were to stop all pollution today, these residues would persist for decades, or even more than a century. This ...

Large, buoyant plastic items degrade over decades, shedding microplastics as they go. These tiny fragments may eventually ...

Just for a minute, think about how much of the plastic you use today will end up as trash. Drink bottles? Grocery bags? Food wrappers? If you live in the United States, it’ll probably add up to about ...

Plastics don’t just pollute oceans, they leach Invisible poisons that linger for years. Now, scientists have discovered that the crystal structure of natural iron minerals could determine how fast ...

As water companies are ordered to tackle potentially harmful levels of so-called forever chemicals in drinking water sources ...

Seventh-grader Ethan Lentz, 13, marvels as a liquid turns into gelatin Tuesday as Lexin Aldridge, a 14-year-old seventh-grader, adds a powder. All of the seventh- and eighth-graders at Wayne E.

What would a month without buying any new single-use plastic products look like? It’s a tall order for many Americans, who go through about five pounds of plastic a week, according to Oxford ...

Plastics recycling trade groups on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean have spent more than two years examining the differences ...