Besides their good habits of buying items with minimal packaging, their city offers comprehensive curbside recycling and composting — and it’s strongly expected that everyone know how to use them ...

By adding citric acid and squid ink to a cellulose-based polymer, researchers created a variety of structurally colored ...

Plastics are one of the largest sources of pollution on Earth, lasting for years on land or in water. But a new type of ...

Finding new materials with useful properties is a primary goal for materials scientists, and it's central to improving ...

Aimplas, a Spain-based technological center that provides solutions to the plastics industry, says it is leading the Bioprocess project, which aims to improve the mechanical and barrier properties of ...

Biomaterials mushroom-based could become an alternative to plastic and create clothing that can be renewed. Materials that combine natural and synthetic have many advantages. Researchers hope to find ...

Then, I will discuss numerical simulations on the interplay between biofouling and the regional scale coastal transport of microplastics. Despite their different physical scales, both of these ...

Smart policies and innovation—not bans—can reduce waste and build a circular plastics economy that maximizes the value of plastic.

A ban on the sale of single-use plastic bottles at all city-owned properties is set for an upcoming Honolulu City Council vote.

Based on Hertz contact theory, an elastic-plastic contact mechanics model of outer cylinder under different contact angles of axis is proposed. The relationship among contact angle, load and contact ...

The choice of polymerization method determines the molecular structure and properties of the plastic, such as its flexibility, strength, and heat resistance.

A teeny-tiny problem of epic proportions Maya Dizack, BSPH '24 (ScM), set out years ago on a journey down the Mississippi River to see how widespread microplastics were in this major body of water.