Recycling bin filled with plastic bottles emphasizes waste management and environmental awareness. Image in public domain.

The breakthrough offers a promising new approach to reducing plastic pollution through photocatalysis, a metabolic pathway ...

Three species of bacteria in combination are capable of breaking down PAE diethyl phthalate, an important component in plastic pollution. Yet none of the three can do the same thing in isolation to ...

Hundreds of millions of tons of plastic are produced globally every year. New research shows how that waste can be turned ...

Plastic to possibilities ...

Throwing your plastic bottles in the recycling bin may make you feel good about yourself, or ease your guilt about your ...

The approach harnesses the power of bacteria to transform post-consumer plastic into L-DOPA, a frontline medication for the ...

Sunlight hits tiny particles of plastic floating in a clear water solution. Slowly, they begin to disappear, leaving behind a ...

A drug to treat Parkinson's disease can be made from waste plastic bottles using a pioneering method, a study shows. The ...

Explore the urgent issue of ocean plastic pollution and its impact on marine life and human health. Find out how to help.

Plastic bags tangled in trees. Takeout containers scattered along roadsides. Bottles clogging streams and waterways and washing up on beaches. Across the United States, plastic waste and pollution ...

Along the final stretch of the Seyhan River, in southern Türkiye, plastic bits in various colors dot the water and sediment.