A group of scientists in Japan has created a new form of plastic that combines the strength required for everyday use with ...

Around the world, plastics find their way into farm fields. Climate change makes agricultural plastic, already a necessity ...

Make a few easy changes in your kitchen to help cut down on microplastic exposure — here's how to get started.

A new study found that chewing gum releases hundreds to thousands of microplastics into saliva. Both synthetic and natural ...

With recent studies revealing the harmful and worrying health effects of microplastics, it's more important than ever to use ...

According to the National Institutes of Health (NIH), in 2019, the global output of plastic products was 460 million tons. Only 9% of those are recycled. It is estimated that by 2060, plastic ...

Microplastics could have carcinogenic and harmful effects on essential biological processes. Taking steps to avoid these ...

Plastics are useful and versatile products. But they are also difficult to recycle and, during 2025 alone, will probably account for 360 million metric tons of solid waste. More insidious are the ...

These are some of the same plastics used in everyday plastic consumer products, Dr. Tasha Stoiber, senior scientist at the Environmental Working Group, a nonprofit environmental health ...

A team of materials scientists from Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, the University of Milano-Bicocca, and Istituto Italiano ...

While recycling aims to reduce plastic waste, the practice itself could be making matters worse by producing an even more ...