W. Aaron Vandiver is a writer, attorney, and wildlife conservationist. He is the author of the novel Under a Poacher’s Moon, released on February 1, 2022. An estimated 1.6 billion disposable masks ...

Sign up for The Morning Report with all your must-read news for the day. California adopted its first plastic bag ban a decade ago, creating rules that lawmakers said ...

Sharon Osbourne says Ozzy Osbourne offered to pay anything to fix the "horrendous" plastic surgery she received in 2021. According to a recent interview, Sharon said she felt like the plastic surgery ...

A commonly used material in 3D printing is plastics. The reason being is that it is readily available, cost effective, and allows for rapid prototyping. However, plastics pose an environmental concern ...

Last time we talked about a video that purported to do plastic welding, we mentioned that the process wasn’t really plastic welding as we understood it. Judging by the comments, many people agreed, ...

"We are drilling for oil to produce plastic that we burn or bury a few months later. It is an economic and ecological absurdity." These were the words of French President Emmanuel Macron to the ...

It's not easy to find delightful children's toys that aren't also an environmental nightmare. It's not easy to find delightful children's toys that aren't also an environmental nightmare.Bess ...

Global expansion of plastic production, especially with single-use plastics, has created a crisis for human health and the environment. President Biden has failed to confront the problem. He has ...

Russell Reed is an interdisciplinary environmentalist dedicated to building a more inclusive environmental movement. He is a founding member of Sway, a company building seaweed-based replacements for ...

Plastic has allowed many food industry giants to become the massive entities they are today. For example, Coca-Cola generates 3 million tons of plastic packaging a year; PepsiCo has been found to use ...

The common material is a growing source of emissions, but a combination of technology and policy could help clean it up. This article is from The Spark, MIT Technology Review’s weekly climate ...

A pair of studies examines ways to break down plastic, but there may be risks in trying to amplify these natural processes. Reading time 4 minutes It’s overwhelming to think about how polluted our ...