Tupperware — the company that sells those nostalgic, lidded plastic containers from your youth — is trying to file for ...

A school scheme to educate poor children and clean up pollution in Lagos brought hope. Now its future is at risk.

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It’s not a sheet, it’s not a liquid. So how does P&G’s new laundry detergent “tile” work? We washed 12 loads to find out.Tide ...

MILWAUKEE — Throughout the weekend, rolled-up sheets of plastic hung from the ceiling of the visitor’s clubhouse at American ...

Sudan's warring parties are blocking delivery of food aid. The crisis is a grim example of what happens when a key part of ...

Researchers have cracked the code for turning plastic back into the building blocks to make new plastics. It could revolutionize recycling, which studies have shown is broken. Researchers at UC ...

At the same time, there is uncertainty among some regarding whether it can safely be used on plastic. Since plastic is a relatively easy material to damage, one might be understandably ...

Despite the planet’s growing plastic pollution crisis, petroleum-based polymers have become an integral part of modern life. They make cars and airplanes lighter and more energy efficient.

Chemists have developed a catalytic process that turns the largest component of today's plastic waste stream, polyolefin plastic bags and bottles, into gases -- propylene and isobutylene -- that ...

SOME CALIFORNIA LAWMAKERS ARE PUSHING TO COMPLETELY BAN PLASTIC BAGS AT GROCERY STORES ... washable materials to be sold at the point of sale. "We need to change the dynamic in our retail ...

An additional fee is added to the retail sale of bottled drinks ... nearly 50% of recycled PET in Germany was repurposed for plastic sheets, films and textile fibers, while just 34% was allocated ...