There’s been an exciting new discovery in the fight against plastic pollution: mealworm larvae that are capable of consuming ...

The vast amounts of plastic garbage heaped in landfills and in the environment are as problematic as the plastics are useful. In an article published in the journal Angewandte Chemie International ...

Fortunately, the mealworm could provide a more efficient and eco-friendly alternative to traditional recycling methods, which ...

Scientists may have discovered an unlikely ally in the fight against plastic waste: the lesser mealworm. Native to Africa but ...

There’s been an exciting new discovery in the fight against plastic pollution: mealworm larvae that are capable of consuming ...

Plastic debris can break down into smaller particles due to different environmental factors, and become micro-nanoplastics ...

The new method repurposes waste polystyrene to harness static electricity. A thin patch made from layers of polystyrene, each ...

The invention comes from researchers at Australia's RMIT University and was developed in collaboration with Latvia's Riga ...

The innovative thin patch, made from multiple layers of polystyrene each around one-tenth the thickness of a human hair, ...

Plastic-eating worms found in Africa can digest plastic with the help of gut bacteria, potentially aiding in reducing plastic ...

In the journal Angewandte Chemie, a research team from the Friedrich Wöhler Research Institute for Sustainable Chemistry in Göttingen introduced a novel approach for recycling polystyrene waste. Their ...

Polystyrene, the foam within disposable takeout containers, and EPS are all the same material. Styrofoam, it turns out, is ...