At Stony Brook University, researchers are developing an AI-assisted system to analyze and characterize contaminated items in ...

A YouTuber has taken a familiar Arduino turtle-style robot and scaled every component up by seven times while keeping its ...

OAK RIDGE, Tenn. — Researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory have developed a new method to convert discarded plastic into gasoline and diesel-like fuels. This breakthrough could help address ...

As the crisis in the Middle East continues, much of the public focus has been on fuel prices and the cost of living. But there’s another oil-related product that often gets overlooked: plastic. Most ...

Researchers keep finding ingenious ways to manage plastic waste by converting it into new materials in a virtuous loop. While the technologies may work remarkably well, the intensive resources and ...

Some environmentalists question using plastic to address rising temperatures. The skate rink at Mahoney State Park in Ashland, Neb., was recently replaced with a synthetic ice surface to keep the rink ...

Recycled plastics are promoted on everything from water bottles and fleece jackets to shopping bags and yogurt cups. Verifying such claims, however, is another matter because there is no quick and ...

The Plastic Reduction Alliance played a game of “Is it recyclable?” Wednesday night. “For the longest time, I thought any plastics I take into my home, I just take to the plastics recycling facility ...

Plastic is one of the most durable materials humans have ever made. That durability has made it indispensable in medicine, food packaging and transport. But it’s also created one of the defining ...

To wood or not to wood, that's been the question! Ever since oil-based plastics burst onto the manufacturing scene, cost, sustainability, and performance have defined the ongoing woods vs. plastics ...