Most plastic forks, bottles, and shopping bags ever made still exist somewhere. Maybe buried in a landfill. Maybe drifting in the Pacific. Petrochemical plastics have been perhaps humanity’s greatest ...

Welcome back to Current Climate. Concerns over the health and environmental harms of petroleum-based plastic, particularly over its use in packaging for food, beverages and consumer products, keep ...

A new method to produce strong, biodegradable plastic from bamboo is reported in Nature Communications this week. The bioplastic resembles oil-based plastics in strength, shapability, and thermal ...

Plastic is one of the most widely used materials, found in everything from packaging and textiles to cars and aircraft. But most plastics are made from petroleum, releasing harmful emissions during ...

Researchers have introduced a new biotechnology platform that may help the petrochemical industry rely less on ...

Long before plastic became something we use every day in our lives, petroleum was valued primarily because it could be used ...