People use more plastic in Taiwan than almost anywhere else in the world. The average person uses at least one new plastic shopping bag a day, adding up to 10 billion plastic bags a year. Plastic is ...

ACROSS MASSACHUSETTS, AND YOU MAY HAVE TO PAY FOR OTHER BAGS. OUR EMILY MAHER IS LIVE IN WALTHAM TONIGHT TO EXPLAIN. EMILY. WELL, MARIA, THIS ISN’T A NEW CONCEPT HERE IN MASSACHUSETTS. MANY CITIES AND ...

The entire source code for Anthropic’s Claude Code command line interface application (not the models themselves) has been leaked and disseminated, apparently due ...

A new Netflix documentary explores whether cutting out plastic can improve our health. But it’s hardly a perfect experiment. By Nina Agrawal In “The Plastic Detox,” a new documentary out Monday on ...

Five couples with unexplained infertility tried to avoid plastic as much as possible for 12 weeks. Three of them got pregnant after, but this doesn't mean plastics are causing infertility, experts say ...

IRVING, TX — The Plastics Pipe Institute, Inc. (PPI) is marking its 75th anniversary in 2025, recognizing more than seven decades of work supporting plastic piping systems used in water, wastewater, ...

Today, the plastics industry stands at the threshold of a technological revolution, with artificial intelligence and machine learning poised to transform everything from material development to ...

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Beneath the ocean’s surface, bacteria have evolved specialized enzymes that can digest PET plastic, the material used in bottles and clothes. Researchers at KAUST discovered that a unique molecular ...

Source: Marek Pavlik / Unsplash Microplastics have become an unavoidable part of our daily life, embedded in packaging and clothing, and found in our oceans, in the air we breathe, and in the water we ...