Researchers have linked a harmful chemical in plastic to hundreds of thousands of deaths from heart disease worldwide, and even as pervasive as plastic is, local experts said there are ways for people ...

July 29 - In the theatre of global self-destruction, few spectacles rival the plastic paradox: nations drowning in toxic chemicals of their own making, like alchemists poisoning themselves with their ...

A team of South Korean scientists have produced the polymers used for everyday plastics through bioengineering, rather than through the use of fossil fuel-based chemicals. It is believed that the ...

A simple, eco-friendly method has been developed to recycle one of the world’s most durable plastics into useful chemical ...

Plastic is one of the world's biggest pollutants. But a new scientific discovery could transform the industry and its environmental footprint by capturing carbon dioxide from the air and using that to ...

DEHP, a plastic-softening chemical, may have contributed to 356,000 global heart disease deaths in 2018 NYU researchers identify Asia and the Middle East as bearing three-quarters of the health burden ...

Good sleep habits are crucial to a healthy lifestyle. A new study suggests that chemicals in plastics may throw off our bodies' sleep cycles. Plastic is now prevalent in our lives and hard to avoid, ...

Countries that want the plastics treaty to limit what they see as problematic plastic products and chemicals are stepping up their push for the agreement to more explicitly address risks to human ...

Researchers have demonstrated a new and sustainable way to make the chemicals that are the basis of thousands of ...