Plastic pollution has been a steadily growing concern for years. Not only does the physical waste present a challenge for communities, but plastics also release chemical additives, such as ...

A new report by nonprofit think tank Planet Tracker and the Safer Chemistry Impact Fund, which analyzed publicly available data to determine hazard profiles of 18,000 plastic additive products, found ...

Researchers have shown that a common plastic additive called carbon black can depolymerize polystyrene and polyvinyl chloride (PVC), two of the least recycled plastics in the planet’s waste stream It ...

Researchers collect road dust samples from a section of road paved with recycled plastic-reinforced asphalt. Pictured left to right: Rachel Nakamoto, Simon Williams, Cara Megill and Cate Wardinski.

Plastic microchips? At the recent Productronica 2005 show in Munich, The Fraunhofer Institute for Reliability and Microintegration (Munich, Germany) demonstrated a process using additive printing ...