The Cool Down on MSN

Researchers make groundbreaking discovery that could reshape the future of plastic recycling: 'A significant practical advancement'

This new technology could significantly improve recycling outcomes. Researchers make groundbreaking discovery that could ...
The Conversation

Most plastics are made from fossil fuels and end up in the ocean, but marine microbes can’t degrade them – new research

Victor Gambarini was supported by a Ph.D. stipend from the George Mason Centre for the Natural Environment (New Zealand). Additional support was provided by the Aotearoa Impacts and Mitigation of ...
Agence France-Presse on MSNOpinion

Plastics everywhere, and the myth that made it possible

If there's one material that defines modern life more than any other, it's plastic: present from the moment we're born in ...
Nature

Giving plastics a whole lease of life

Recycling plastics is challenging, but new technology could produce high-quality materials for car and computer components, all while helping tackle the pollution crisis. 25 June 2025 Discarded ...
Slate

Plastic Is Here to Stay

Plastic is a material of possibilities. It can hold groceries and take photographs; it constitutes ski coats and desk chairs and toothbrushes and suitcases. It can do all these things with the same ...
Newsday

Failure of talks for plastic treaty turn focus back to reduce, reuse, recycle. How's that going?

Talks aimed at a global treaty to cut plastic pollution fizzled in Geneva this week, with no agreement to meaningfully reduce the harms to human health and the environment that come with the millions ...
EDN

Sensor sees recycled plastics in different light

A prototype sensor being developed by sensor manufacturer IDEC (Sunnyvale, CA) uses light to differentiate among three different types of plastic. Aimed at the recycling industry for accurately ...