Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Common Plastic Additives May Have Affected The Health of Millions Exposure to a trio of chemicals found in many everyday household ...

Plastic pollution has been at the center of environmental debate for decades. While it is well known that plastic in the environment can break down into microplastics, be ingested by humans and other ...

Compostable plastics could be part of a solution to the world's plastic waste problem. But currently these materials need ...

Amid rising evidence that additives designed to improve plastics also disrupt sex hormones, a Rutgers laboratory trial shows that plastic itself can do likewise when inhaled at moderate levels.

The included gauges schematically show the degree of additives accumulation and the complexity of their interactions both among themselves and with the polymers. During some stages, additives have a ...

A new report by nonprofit think tank Planet Tracker and the Safer Chemistry Impact Fund, which analyzed publicly available data to determine hazard profiles of 18,000 plastic additive products, found ...

When Geoffrey Coates, a professor of chemistry and chemical biology at Cornell University, gives a talk about plastics and recycling, he usually opens with this question: What percentage of the 78 ...

Greenmantra Technologies, a Brantford, Ontario-based molecular recycler of plastics, is featuring the success of its customer, Timewell, Illinois-based Timewell Drainage Products, in optimizing the ...

Cleveland company says its OnColor line is made from recycled content, including a carbon black substitute derived from scrap tires. Avient says its OnColor REC Polymer Colorants line has been ...