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Thanks to science, the materials currently causing pollution can be converted to create a more sustainable and cleaner future ...

How does garbage shape our world? That’s the driving question behind “Castaway: The Afterlife of Plastic,” on view at Harvard University’s Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology in Cambridge, ...

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 ...

COPENHAGEN, Denmark, September 15, 2025 (ENS) – Scientists at the University of Copenhagen have found a way to convert plastic waste into a climate solution for efficient and sustainable capture of ...

The day state officials handed Riley a large black plastic trash bag that smelled like lemon is seared into the former Oregon foster youth’s mind. “I will never forget my first trash bag,” Riley ...

Midway Atoll resident biologist John Klavitter is not surprised when he finds plastic in the bellies of dead Laysan albatross chicks. Opening one chick's stomach with a bone, Klavitter finds lots of ...