By converting plastic waste into a microbe-friendly food source, scientists have built an upcycling pipeline that turns the waste into a variety of useful products. The findings are detailed in the ...
Nurdles are a form of plastic pollution, and one individual's dedication helped remove plastic pollution in a river after a ...
Tiny shards of plastic called microplastics are all over the environment and even inside human bodies. Researchers have found a type of bioengineered algae that can clean up these pesky particles.
A plastic drinks bottle is one of the most "recyclable" objects in the modern waste stream. It is lightweight and collected in huge volumes. Yet even for this item, the reality of recycling is messy: ...
New Microplastics Research Center at PSU hopes to identify sources of pervasive, potentially dangerous pollution ...