More affordable than ever, 3D printers are booming for personal, professional, and educational use. Here's everything to know ...

New process vaporizes plastic bags and bottles, yielding gases to make new, recycled plastics The catalytic process efficiently reduces polymers to chemical precursors, bringing closer a circular ...

Watch the CBS Reports documentary, "Advanced Recycling: Does Big Plastic's Idea Work?" in the video player above. HOUSTON, Tex.—When the news crew showed up outside a waste-handling business ...

Despite the planet’s growing plastic pollution crisis, petroleum-based polymers have become an integral part of modern life. They make cars and airplanes lighter and more energy efficient.

Watch the CBS Reports documentary, "Advanced Recycling: Does Big Plastic's Idea Work?" About 48 million tons of plastic waste are generated each year in the U.S., and very little of it is ever ...

The grace period is over for a whole new range of now banned plastic bags and other everyday products. Vote in our poll and have your say. The state government announced from September 1 ...

These tiny plastic particles can range in size from 5 millimeters (as small as a pencil eraser) to 1 nanometer, which can’t be seen with the naked eye, the Environmental Protection Agency ...

Indonesia is the fourth most populous nation in the world with 275 million people, but the second largest plastic polluter after China, according to the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP).

The treatment promises washboard abs for men who find them difficult to develop otherwise. Its surging popularity here is helping to remake the face of plastic surgery in a country that has ...

Researchers have cracked the code for turning plastic back into the building blocks to make new plastics. It could revolutionize recycling, which studies have shown is broken. Researchers at UC ...

To get those washboard abs, some men here are now taking bold action. They’re calling the plastic surgeon. August 31, 2024 at 7:00 p.m. McCoy, our Rio de Janeiro bureau chief, and Calderon ...