Plastics

Daily exposure to certain chemicals used to make plastic household items could be linked to more than 356,000 global deaths…

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In the quest to design the next generation of materials for modern devices – ones that are lightweight, flexible and…

Microscopic plastic pollutants drifting through the air are lodging in the lungs of birds, a new University of Texas at…

Micro- and nanoscale plastic particles in soil and water can significantly increase how much toxic chemicals plants and human intestinal…

By editing the polymers of discarded plastics, chemists at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory have found a…

Five large patches of trash swirling in the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian oceans serve as a crushing reminder that the…