Plastic is one of the world's biggest pollutants. But a new scientific discovery could transform the industry and its environmental footprint by capturing carbon dioxide from the air and using that to ...

Plastics are great, except when it comes to making or disposing of them. Production generally requires the use of chemicals derived from fossil fuels, and so helps to continue our reliance on them.

Researchers have linked a harmful chemical in plastic to hundreds of thousands of deaths from heart disease worldwide, and even as pervasive as plastic is, local experts said there are ways for people ...

Abstract. Credit: Cambridge Prisms: Plastics (2025). DOI: 10.1017/plc.2025.1 Researchers are calling for a substantial reduction in the number of chemicals used in plastics manufacturing, and a ...

Good sleep habits are crucial to a healthy lifestyle. A new study suggests that chemicals in plastics may throw off our bodies' sleep cycles. Plastic is now prevalent in our lives and hard to avoid, ...

The agency named the next five chemicals it thinks should face an extensive risk assessment process. EPA has announced the next five chemicals it will launch a lengthy risk review process for, a move ...

NEW YORK, April 29, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Daily exposure to certain chemicals used to make plastic household items could be linked to more than 356,000 global deaths from heart disease in 2018 alone, a ...

Negotiations on a global treaty to end plastic pollution will draw to a close Friday, as nations remain deadlocked over ...

Chemicals of concern in plastics: Number of the chemicals identified as of concern, less hazardous, not hazardous, without data, and under development. The outer circle represents chemicals that are ...

Countries that want the plastics treaty to limit what they see as problematic plastic products and chemicals are stepping up their push for the agreement to more explicitly address risks to human ...