NEW YORK CITY, NY / ACCESS Newswire / May 15, 2026 / Plastic is no longer just another commodity. Since the middle of ...

A plastic fishing line might take 600 years to break down in nature or a landfill. A plastic bottle might take 450 years. Dental floss might take decades. But in a Harvard lab, a recently discovered ...

Our ability to survive on the only known habitable planet has always involved adaptation and innovation. Carbon emissions and plastics, while central to our current way of life, have detrimental ...

Recycled plastics could help reduce the world’s growing waste crisis, but only if food packaging is carefully regulated to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photo Credit: @ janardhanhavanje/ Instagram There is a staggering amount of plastic waste — an estimated 2.6 million tons — ...

Although the need for effective waste management has been recognized for decades, human and environmental health challenges associated with plastic waste are not only growing but also accelerating.

Scientists create carbon nanotubes and other hybrid nanomaterials out of plastic waste using an energy-efficient, low-cost, low-emissions process that could also be profitable. Putting that soda ...

TROON, SCOTLAND - JANUARY 26: Plastic waste is washed up on South Troon beach on January 26, 2017 in Troon, Scotland. Recent reports by scientists have confirmed, plastics dumped in the world oceans ...

The world produces an average of 430 million metric tons of plastic each year. The United States alone produces tens of millions of tons of plastic waste annually. Yet on average, only about 5 to 6 ...

A new California law will ban companies from using the symbol if their products aren’t commonly recycled. Here’s how you can ...