Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation is launching a pilot 'plastic-free market' initiative in three locations, offering cloth ...

Formosa Plastics is investing $150 million to add hexene production at its Point Comfort, Texas, complex, supporting ...

It's not often you see plastics industry players mobilizing around a state ballot initiative, but that's what happened in ...

Deep within the world's oceans lurk marine bacteria armed with plastic-munching enzymes, their evolution seemingly sculpted ...

The biggest shifts appeared in Bacillota — a key digestive bacteria group — alongside metabolite patterns associated with ...

UD chemical engineer wins the AIChE Langer Prize for efforts to harness biology to manage plastic waste sustainably ...

A new chapter for circular plastics in Europe begins with the official opening of Områ, Norway’s new national facility for ...

A newly discovered enzyme motif reveals how ocean microbes are evolving to digest plastic, potentially aiding future cleanup ...

The US-based startup, founded by Rolex Laureate Miranda Wang, has transformed its LifeCycled™ waste into products such as sneakers. Now it’s getting ready to radically scale up its approach.

P lastics are easy to throw out but hard to get rid of. Unlike biodegradable materials, bacteria and fungi haven’t evolved the ability to break them down, leaving plastic garbage to languish for ...

Beneath the ocean’s surface, bacteria have evolved specialized enzymes that can digest PET plastic, the material used in bottles and clothes. Researchers at KAUST discovered that a unique molecular ...

Braskem (B3: BRKM3, BRKM5, and BRKM6; NYSE: BAK; LATIBEX: XBRK), the largest polyolefins producer in the Americas and global ...