Concern over microplastics and forever chemicals could lead to California banning cosmetic products with glitter and microbeads.

In a world overrun with plastic garbage, causing untold environmental woes, University of Houston assistant professor of ...

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Those plastic pots your new plants come in can save you money after all. You can flip them upside down to use as inexpensive ...

Researchers are developing bioplastic bubbles from algae that could grow, repair, and protect habitats on Mars without ...

Amid a global plastic-pollution crisis, artist Erik Jon Olson turns his own plastic waste into quilted works of art in which ...

At the heart of this innovation are polystyrene (PS) nanospheres, each just 400 nanometers wide—about 250 times thinner than ...

We tested for the best plastic cutting boards, looking for durability, ease of cleaning, design, and more. The Material ...

Hundreds of thousands of plastic beads have washed up on beaches in the Hauraki Gulf. Only half of the plastics businesses using nurdles have signed up to voluntary spill prevention initiatives.

When the beads were subsequently collected and analyzed, the bacteria would be detected. For the study, the scientists utilized 2-mm-wide beads made of three different materials: polyethylene ...

Microbeads are synthetic polymer particles that, at the time of their manufacture, are greater than 0.1 µm and less than or equal to 5 mm in size, which can vary in chemical composition, size, shape, ...

Plastic beads of every color, shape, and size from the Beads of Courage program at Children's Health. The beads mark every treatment, every milestone, every medical miracle.