Much of the U.S. uses single-stream recycling, where plastic, glass and paper go into one bin. Here’s what happens to that ...

Every week, millions of Americans toss their recyclables into a single bin, trusting that their plastic bottles, aluminum ...

Lately, there's been plenty of progress in 3D printing objects from the lunar regolith. We've reported on several projects ...

By 2021 annual production had roughly doubled, with the trade in plastics (and goods containing it) estimated to be worth ...

The chemical industry is undergoing a pivotal transformation as it moves toward greener, more sustainable practices.

The invention is a metamaterial, which is a material engineered to feature new and unusual properties that depend on the material's physical structure rather than its chemical composition. In this ...

The Global Compostable Plastic Market has experienced significant growth, starting from a valuation of $991.2 million in 2019 and is projected to reach $3,102.6 million by 2027. T ...

Health advocates say there are ways of protecting children from plastics, including better transparency and safer materials.

Sanat Kumar, Michael Bykhovsky and Charo Gonzalez-Bykhovsky Professor of Chemical Engineering ... the hard layers, plastic molecules are rigidly organized in strong crystal structures.

The global foam plastics market was valued at $102.0 billion in 2019, and is projected to reach $123.7 billion by 2027, growing at a CAGR of 3.3% from 2020 to 2027. Foam plastics, also known as ...

The technology, called Single-Molecule Atomic-Resolution Time-resolved Electron Microscopy (SMART-EM for short), lets ...