Pollution affects human health and the environment in many ways. Air, water, and land pollution continue to damage ecosystems, with conventional materials—especially plastics—being a primary ...

Life in general and microbes in particular have modified our planet deeply, being responsible for the oxygenation of the atmosphere or for most of the mineral species that can now be found on Earth.

Plastic pollution is seemingly omnipresent in society, and while plastic bags, cups, and bottles may first come to mind, plastics are also increasingly used to make clothing, rugs, and other textiles.

Professor dr. Linda Amaral-Zettler, Research Leader at NIOZ Royal Netherlands Institute of Sea Research and the Chair in Marine Microbiology at the University of Amsterdam has been awarded a ...

Michael Pratt doesn't want to change the way you take out the trash. Instead, he wants to change what happens to trash when it ends up in a landfill or the middle of the ocean. Pratt is the founder of ...

Scientists at the Wood Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) have been working for years to find out what types of plastics have the shortest and longest lifespans in the ocean, and what types of ...

Researchers led by a team at the University of California San Diego have developed a biodegradable form of thermoplastic polyurethane (TPU) that could help reduce the plastic industry’s environmental ...

Biotechnology encompasses a variety of techniques that employ living cells and molecules, such as enzymes, derived from organisms to produce or alter products and processes. In the plastics sector, ...

Researchers from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology, in collaboration with Yonsei University, have pioneered a coating technique utilizing biodegradable PVA material. This innovation ...

Researchers have developed an approach to accurately record and fully track the biodegradation of plastics in soils. Modern agriculture uses a lot of plastic, especially in the form of mulch film that ...

TEL AVIV, Israel—Israeli materials startup Balena has launched what it describes as a "game-changing, fully biodegradable" footwear to help address sustainability issues in the fashion industry. The ...