WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is moving to reverse a federal push away from plastic straws, declaring that paper ...

The UoW researcher team has added DNA to several species of bacteria found in wastewater, allowing them to biodegrade polyethylene terephthalate (PET), a common plastic found in carpet, clothing, and ...

They were washed in with the tide, most likely from China or the US, thousands of miles away -- part of an enormous plastic garbage patch, spinning in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, which you ...

Every day, the equivalent of 2,000 garbage trucks full of plastic are dumped into the world's oceans, rivers, and lakes. Plastic pollution is a global problem. Every year 19-23 million tonnes of ...

"For example, to decompose fiber-reinforced plastics, perhaps used in aircraft parts, you'd need high temperatures over 500 degrees Celsius, or strong acid or base conditions. These things have an ...

Chung explained to Young Post that while paper straws, unlike plastic ones, will naturally decompose, or break down, into smaller pieces, there is still a chance that small animals could swallow ...

they take up to 200 years to decompose, leaching toxins into the environment. Triarchy refused to be part of this cycle. “In 2018, we discontinued the use of plastics in our materials,” he ...

How does the biodegradable plastic biodegrade? Will it biodegrade in a landfill? Must it be composted? The beauty of these two laws, for now, is that they aren’t happening here. We have a chance ...