If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. A promising new material created from plants could help replace the single-use plastics ...

"UMass Lowell is among the nation's leading centers for plastics technology, and its Plastics Engineering program...is helping to push new boundaries of how these versatile materials are used, ...

KAMPALA, Uganda — In Uganda’s Mbale district, famous for its production of arabica coffee, a plague of plastic bags locally known as buveera is creeping beyond the city. It’s a problem that ...

Plastic waste is a heavy burden on the oceans. A team from Japan has developed a solution: a plastic that dissolves in salt water. Plastic waste can be found everywhere on the planet. The oceans ...

A waterproof, plant-based material that degrades quickly in the ocean could offer a sustainable alternative to single-use plastics in cups and straws. Transparent paperboard is, like cellophane ...

Read the paper: Leaf absorption contributes to accumulation of microplastics in plants Plants can absorb plastic particles directly from the air. Particles in the air can enter leaves through ...

Uncertainty around the operational and market impacts of the Trump administration’s latest round of tariffs is expected to continue in the near future as plastics recyclers and related industries wait ...

Today, the Council and the European Parliament provisionally agreed on a regulation on preventing the loss of plastic pellets – the industrial raw materials used to make plastic products – into the ...

Western Michigan University and the NCAA were in a bit of a Frozen Four fiasco on Monday. But only for a little while. With the Frozen Four scene, including the ice, captured at Enterprise Center ...

A plastic surgeon has been found guilty of attempting to murder a fellow doctor whom he wanted "out of the way", by breaking into his home, dousing the ground floor in petrol and then stabbing his ...

The NCAA informed him Tuesday that the correct and current WMU logo would be in place in time for Thursday's national semifinals. It actually was fixed as of Tuesday night. "Yesterday, we noted an ...

Johnathan Peter Brooks (left) tried to stab Graeme Perks (right) (Picture: PA/BBC) A plastic surgeon who broke into a fellow doctor’s home and stabbed him in the middle of the night has been ...