Chemical engineering researchers at the University of Waterloo have joined forces to take on a pressing environmental problem ...

We hear a lot about the tons of plastic that pollute our oceans, but the solution to this troubling problem gets much less airtime. Let's take a closer look at the answer. Hint: it isn't paper straws.

As the planet drowns in plastic waste, companies are devising bizarre alternatives, including stretchy seaweed, reverse vending machines and bamboo utensils, to save us all. Plastic waste often does ...

"One of the biggest hurdles." Researchers make revolutionary breakthrough that could solve major problem with plastic: ...

Scientists have devised a novel way of tackling the mounting issue of plastic pollution… by using bacteria to transform plastic waste into vanilla flavouring. The food industry wants to find a ...

Miranda Wang stood at the edge of a vast ditch—about two football fields wide, three stories deep—and slowly shook her head, shocked by what she was seeing. The muddy trench was filled with multiple ...

The use of plastic is a growing problem that the world desperately needs to address. Plastics are almost exclusively made from petroleum and retain a lot of potential energy after they have been used.

Local News Solutions to the microplastic problem Recent studies estimate the average American consumes a credit card's worth of plastic each week. That's equivalent to ingesting 50 plastic grocery ...

Ramy Inocencio is a CBS News foreign correspondent based in London, covering Europe and the Middle East. He joined the Network in 2019 as CBS News' Asia correspondent, based in Beijing and reporting ...

Plastics are very useful materials. They’ve contributed significant benefits to modern society. But the unprecedented amount of plastics produced over the past few decades has caused serious ...

On a recent day in Cambridge, a steady stream of aluminum cans move down the assembly line at Lamplighter Brewery in Cambridge, being filled with a New England Style IPA. The cans move to their last ...

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