Sand, rock, and melted plastic now sit beneath the tires on a quiet residential street in Oahu. For nearly a year, cars have ...

Hundreds of millions of tons of single-use plastic end up in landfills every year, and even the small percentage of plastic that gets recycled can’t last forever. But our group of materials scientists ...

Oliver's store recommends traditional wood or wicker furniture only for covered porches or patios. Even wrought iron, a backyard standby, has higher maintenance needs. For full sun use, the polymer ...

Little pieces of polymer plastic. The plastics industry is trying to be as clean as possible, but it has a lot of obstacles to overcome. The late great comedian George Carlin once said that perhaps ...

Recycled fishing nets and household plastics create durable roads while reducing marine debris and landfill overflow in ...

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 ...

Researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory have invented a reusable adhesive from waste polymers ...

To upcycle the polymers of discarded plastics, chemists at Oak Ridge National Laboratory invented a way to generate new macromolecules with more valuable properties than those of the starting material ...

Water used to wash recycling materials in the study became progressively darker as it was reused. Photo courtesy of Greg ...

Plastic prices may rise from April as polymer costs jump 50–60% amid West Asia tensions. Industry seeks GST cuts, warns of ...

Plastics manufacturers urge government for price stability and survival package amid rising polymer costs due to West Asia ...