Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Plastic trash accumulates in trees and shrubs along the Los Angeles River. Citizen of the Planet/Education Images/Universal Images ...

Researchers led by Takuzo Aida at the RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science (CEMS) in Japan have one-upped themselves in their quest to solve our microplastic problem. In a study published in the ...

Have you ever asked yourself what could be the raw material from which plastic is made? Well, plastic can be synthetic or organic. Organic plastics are made from starch, vegetable fats/oils, bacteria ...

Plastic permeates human life — and bodies. Dr. Christopher Hine, principal investigator in Cleveland Clinic's Christopher Hine Laboratory, said some human studies have shown microplastics appearing ...