On the eve of World Environment Day, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) launched the Global Plastics Hub, a tool that integrates data from multiple sources to support evidence-based ...

Scientists at the plastic technology center AIMPLAS are working hard to decrease our reliance on plastic. The team is "addressing this issue through innovative technologies such as physicochemical ...

Our world is increasingly plastic. Back in the 1950s, humanity produced just 5 million metric tons of plastic per year; today it’s 400 million metric tons. Since plastic can take hundreds or thousands ...

Model making is a great hobby, but knowing how and where to start is another story. It can be overwhelming for novices: Injection-molded plastic models have been on the market for close to a century, ...

One reason plastic waste persists in the environment is because there’s not much that can eat it. The chemical structure of most polymers is stable and different enough from existing food sources that ...

The surging tide of microplastics is already an environmental and health threat, but as the world heats up — driving increasingly extreme weather — it’s transforming them into “more mobile, persistent ...