A team of researchers has made a compostable 3D printing material made from coffee grounds and mushroom spores.

The European company Reju may have developed the polyester recycling technology the textile industry needs. The question is ...

A new discovery offers a promising way to break down stubborn plastics like Plexiglass into their original building blocks, ...

Water ice is a far more complex substance than we might assume. Scientists have now created an exotic new form of ice in the ...

Americans drink around 1.6 billion pounds of coffee, but most of the used coffee grounds—over 1.1 billion pounds—end up in ...

Origin’s main business is using waste wood to make zero-carbon and recyclable plastic precursor chemicals. Plastic ...

Acrylic polymers such as poly (methyl methacrylate)—the plastic used in Plexiglas—are durable materials with a huge variety of commercial applications. But the all-carbon backbones that give these ...

The film discusses the origin and synthesis of plastic materials, highlighting how nature creates various organic substances ...

Researchers at Newcastle University have developed a novel mortar that incorporates recycled plastic and silica aerogel, ...

The growth of the surgical sutures market is driven by the rising number of surgeries, including plastic and neurosurgeries, increasing adoption of advanced sutures like antibacterial and bioactive ...

Alexis Peña and Lauren Blake, cofounders of Good Fibes, aim to tackle this problem with lab-grown elastics. Operating out of ...

A comprehensive assessment sought to evaluate the potential environmental impacts of replacing polyethylene, or PE, packaging like bags, films and containers with alternative materials, including ...