While the threat that microplastics pose to human and ecological health has been richly documented and is well known, nanoplastics, which are smaller than one micrometer (1/50th the thickness of an ...

New research reveals that PET-based glitter microplastics can actively influence biomineralization processes in marine ...

Around the world, plastics find their way into farm fields. Climate change makes agricultural plastic, already a necessity ...

The idea is that if holidaymakers know it's already there when they arrive they won't have to buy cheap, throwaway boards - ...

In a new paper, researchers at North Carolina State University show proof of concept for a system that—in a single ...