Plastic is one of the most durable materials humans have ever made. That durability has made it indispensable in medicine, ...

Wet wipes conveniently clean and sanitize soiled surfaces and skin. Because some labels do not clearly indicate how consumers ...

Sunlight hits tiny particles of plastic floating in a clear water solution. Slowly, they begin to disappear, leaving behind a ...

In this world, plastic is the most stubborn waste. Normally, the plastic waste gets disposed of via municipal collection, ...

Plastic traders in Saharanpur say the West Asia conflict has led to a sharp rise in crude oil and gas prices, increasing the ...

Plastic particles can enter tea in several different ways - and teabags may play a bigger role than many people realize.

Recycling is one answer to the growth in plastic waste but treating “wash water” used to clean recycled plastic before re-use can produce safer recycled ...

Advocacy group Greenpeace favors more reuse options from consumer products companies like Unilever as plastics recyclers struggle to achieve profitability.

The breakthrough offers a promising new approach to reducing plastic pollution through photocatalysis, a metabolic pathway ...

Every year, the world uses roughly 37 billion barrels of oil. Most is burned to power cars, trucks, planes, ships and other types of transport. For more than a century, this energy-dense hydrocarbon ...

Petrochemicals derived from oil and fossil fuels underlie the production of many consumer goods − and many you wouldn’t know from looking at the final product.