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Researchers have unveiled a low cost metal catalyst that can tear apart plastic waste around ten times more efficiently than traditional platinum based systems, potentially slashing the cost of ...

Despite the planet's growing plastic pollution crisis, petroleum-based polymers have become an integral part of modern life. They make cars and airplanes lighter and more energy efficient. They ...

The Angel Academe EIS Fund, managed by SyndicateRoom, has announced its second investment: a significant stake in LabCycle, the UK’s first circular economy solution for laboratory plastic waste.

Since 1950, humanity has produced more than 8.3 billion metric tons of plastic. Most has ended up in landfills or the environment. Now, scientists are working on biological solutions to address the ...

Biomedical and biological research laboratories produce substantial amounts of plastic waste, much of it disposable. Estimates indicate that each researcher may produce up to 0.95 tons of waste per ...

STORY: Scientists say this newly-isolated fungus is showing promising results in breaking down polypropylene. And that could make it a useful tool in the battle against the plastic waste crisis. :: ...

Single-use plastic has always been a concern of Caitlin Broadbent, a sustainability technician at King’s College London. Each month, researchers in the institute’s Drosophila fly facilities discard ...

The Stache Lab at Cornell, led by Prof. Erin Stache, chemistry and chemical biology, has discovered an efficient way to decompose non-biodegradable plastic polystyrene — a material commonly used in ...

GreenLabs Recycling, a Concord, Mass.-based lab science plastics recycling startup, is expanding its business nationally through a partnership with French environmental services company Veolia.

For decades, plastic has been designed to last, not to leave. The result is a planet laced with microplastics that persist in ...