"I love the water. I love swimming," Sophia Perez says. But "in some places sea creatures can't live in their natural habitats because it's been taken over by waste and plastic." (Zoe Cranfill / Los ...

Cellulose-based plastics already exist, but most do not decompose quickly in marine environments. Others require industrial ...

Plastic that behaves like a sturdy fork on your picnic table and then quietly melts back into the soil sounds like science ...

Japanese team develops cellulose plastic that breaks down in salt water without leaving harmful microplastic fragments behind ...

If you go to the beach, you’re likely to see some form of plastic pollution scattered in the waves or sprinkled among the sand grains. A bottle cap fragment here, a transparent piece of packaging ...

After returning from the Transpacific Yacht Race -- an annual sailboat race from Los Angeles to Honolulu -- in 1997, Capt. Charles Moore was guiding his boat through the doldrums when he noticed some ...

Chances are good that you’ve already lost some blood to thermoforming, the plastics manufacturing process that turns a flat sheet of material into an unopenable clamshell package, tray inside a box, ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Priya covers the ocean, climate change, and the future of our planet. The authors first noticed the "plasticrusts" in 2016 and ...

The thermoforming plastic market grew from USD 15.52 billion in 2024 to USD 16.66 billion in 2025. It is expected to expand further at a CAGR of 7.93%, targeting USD 28.58 billion ...

Merrimack, N.H. — Plastics Forming Enterprises LLC (PFE), a recycling consultancy firm for plastic packaging and consumer products, has moved to a larger facility in New Hampshire after tripling the ...

Some of you may be thinking that plastic is convenient to use, but is it convenient to kill the planet? As time passes, more and more plastic is being thrown into landfills, burned and thrown into the ...