The research is the first to project the environmental impact of biodegradable plastics through their entire lifecycle at a global scale ...

Plastic is an essential material in the modern world, but it's also environmentally costly to produce and a major pollutant. A material called pyridinedicarboxylic acid, or PDCA, could help address at ...

Bacardi rum bottles, Skittles sweet wrappers, designer water bottles—a bevy of companies are developing biodegradable plastic packaging they say is better for the environment than traditional plastics ...

Plastic pollution is a major problem in the oceans and seas. Most plastics take hundreds of years to break down and leave behind microplastics that harm animals, plants, and even humans. Scientists ...

Researchers document a multi-faceted global snapshot of the environmental aspects and trends surrounding single-use plastics in a review article. The researchers state that the largest area of ...