Consumer concern about microfiber pollution is not without warrant. Leading researchers and Cotton Incorporated released a study in Nature Communications that revealed synthetic clothing contributes 7 ...

Polyester plastics, commonly found in synthetic textiles and plastic components of home appliances, are notoriously difficult ...

Ditch plastic water bottles, carry reusable totes, use plastic-free containers. Ivanhoe Newswire. ... In 1950, about 1.7 million tons of synthetic plastic was made each year.

The first synthetic plastic — Bakelite — was produced in 1907. Rapid growth in global plastic production began in the 1950s. Since then, annual production of plastics increased nearly 200-fold ...

With a standard plastic water bottle taking up to 450 years to dissolve in the ocean, the race has been on to find a biodegradable plastic that could dissolve faster and be more eco-friendly.

Researchers at the University of Edinburgh have engineered a strain of Escherichia coli that relies on small molecules from waste polyethylene terephthalate (PET) plastic bottles to survive. The ...