With children’s health in the balance, BC researchers are leading a charge to regulate man-made chemicals.

You might not have given much thought to them before, but maybe you want to stop buying them this year. Here’s why.

Plastic utensils are definitely something we should be reconsidering as a society. Luckily, there's another alternative ...

Community-led research from UC Santa Barbara’s Benioff Ocean Science Laboratory spans three years, four continents ,and eight ...

Biodegradable plastics represent a small but growing fraction of global plastic production, offering a potential solution to ...

Once everything is in place, any water added to the Aarke’s reservoir flows through about three inches of activated carbon ...

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 ...

A research team has successfully engineered a novel PET hydrolase enzyme, PET2-21M, achieving a remarkable improvement in the ...

In a striking paradox, the fossil fuels we extract today exist because fungi once lacked these abilities. Now, fungi are emerging as the very organisms that can consume plastics and remediate oil ...

I first saw this set in a client’s home when I was working as a private chef, then went online and purchased it before I was ...

WHEN preparing food some caterers, family members or food vendors wrap some of the food they prepare in nylon and cook or ...

Each year, over 350 million tons of plastic are produced, much of it ending up in landfills or the ocean. A major contributor ...