ITHACA, N.Y. -- A Cornell University research group has made a sweet and environmentally beneficial discovery -- how to make plastics from citrus fruits, such as oranges, and carbon dioxide. In a ...

One reason plastic waste persists in the environment is because there’s not much that can eat it. The chemical structure of most polymers is stable and different enough from existing food sources that ...

Perennial Polymers is turning urban leaf waste into biodegradable plastic without using food crops. First-generation ...

The Future of Fashion Can We Make New Plastics Out of Old Clothes? A UConn chemistry researcher is the future of fashion. Professor Emeritus Challa Kumar was “fed up” with the tremendous amount of ...

Plastics, medicines, cosmetics—there are very few everyday products that do not rely on using fossil resources. A European research team led by Charité—Universitätsmedizin Berlin is now aiming to ...

Scientists have long known that making plastic warms the planet. But plastic may be heating the Earth even more than we realized, according to a report released Wednesday. The Plastics & Climate ...