Most times, the way we handle our waste is the difference between conservation and ruining the environment One of the ways we degrade the environment is through how we handle our waste products. It’s ...

Researchers at Georgia Tech invented a process that uses physical impacts to decompose PET plastic instead of applying heat or chemical treatments, reported Interesting Engineering. It's called ...

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Plastic can take a long time to break down and decompose. Combine that with the fact that plastic is being found everywhere and microplastics have even been found in the human body, and you have quite ...

To minimize plastic waste and pollution, the United States should reject blanket bans and instead address root causes through innovation and the development of a circular plastics economy. Most ...

Plastic pollution is one of the most defining environmental challenges of our time. Despite efforts to recycle or responsibly dispose of plastic, vast garbage patches in the oceans continue to grow, ...

A recent study published in Advanced Energy and Sustainability Research explores how nutritional amino acids (AAs)—both essential (EAAs) and nonessential (NEAAs)—affect the breakdown of polystyrene ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — A dirty diaper may be gross to you, but one Texas company believes it could be the secret ingredient to helping answer an environmental question: How do we clean up all of our plastic ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – Scientists at Sandia National Labs are working on a new concept to recycling plastics; recycling these plastics from the inside out. According to research from the ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. AUSTIN (KXAN) — A dirty diaper may be gross ...