Plastic bottles are not only piling up in our landfills and oceans. Research shows they also shed invisible plastic particles that end up in our bodies. A new study found that a one-liter bottle of ...

Plastic bottles by the side of a road are a common sight, an unseemly reminder of how often consumer products are discarded carelessly. Now some of those bottles may become part of the road. A ...

Graduate student RJ Conk adjusts a reaction chamber in which mixed plastics are degraded into the reusable building blocks of new polymers. A new chemical process can essentially vaporize plastics ...

DAVIDSON – In 2017, The Guardian conducted a study that found that globally, humans buy one million disposable plastic water bottles every minute, and that consumption was increasing. But are those ...