Christopher and Raquelle Judge admitted to defrauding nearly $5 million from more than 40 homeowners last month ...

So Tomajko’s younger self would be delighted to see the shop he currently owns: Lucky Bastard Custom Boots, a storefront that ...

The surging tide of microplastics is already an environmental and health threat, but as the world heats up — driving increasingly extreme weather — it’s transforming them into “more mobile, persistent ...

The fossil-fuel industry is pivoting to plastics: massive companies are launching new refineries and other industrial plants to make plastic from petrochemicals. Science journalist Beth Gardiner ...

Green Science Alliance has added a surprising new entry to the list of materials derived from plastic waste — quantum dots. The Japanese advanced materials startup announced the breakthrough this week ...

Biotech startup FutureBio, the first tenant of UC Berkeley’s Bakar Labs for Energy and Materials, hopes to produce and recycle a new kind of durable, biorenewable plastic at a lower cost than regular ...

Plastic recycling has fallen short. Only about 9% of all plastic is recycled globally, which sounds pretty bad until you compare it with textiles. Only 0.5% of those are recycled. One of the biggest ...

A team of chemists has discovered how to transform PET plastic waste into BAETA, a material that captures CO2 with remarkable efficiency. Instead of ending up as microplastics in the environment, ...

You may not know recognize their faces, but you know their work. The five-person crew at the Connecticut Department of Transportation’s sign shop cranks out nearly 1,500 signs every month that people ...

Hard plastic made from bamboo is as strong and durable as conventional plastics for uses such as household appliances and car interiors, but is also recyclable and biodegrades easily in soil. Plastics ...

Dining out can be a wonderful way to celebrate an anniversary or simply a fantastic alternative to cooking at home. When we go out to a restaurant, we expect a delicious, fresh meal, but that is not ...

Today, the Council adopted the regulation on preventing the loss of plastic pellets into the environment, following a provisional agreement with the European Parliament. The new regulation aims to ...