As the back-to-school season approaches, it's the perfect time to refresh your kids' school supplies with products that are not only functional and stylish but also sustainable and plastic-free.

For plastic bottle recycling, use UAB Recycling bins located throughout campus. Pipette tip boxes are one of the largest streams of waste in labs on UAB’s campus. The pipette tip boxes are composed of ...

A new process uses cheap catalysts to break down polyethylene and polypropylene into their building blocks, enabling common ...

LONDON -- An estimated 52 million metric tons of global plastic waste emissions are produced every year, a new study by the University of Leeds has found.

Thermoplastic materials, in general, can be moulded in a wide range of colours. The colour can be provided in a pre-coloured base plastic or by adding solid or liquid colour concentrates at the ...

Some 8 million tons of plastic trash leak into the ocean annually, and it's getting worse every year. Americans are said to use 2.5 million plastic bottles every hour. Nothing is an emergency ...

Pandemic related demand for testing supplies and vaccine R&D have created unprecedented increases in usage of a several plastic product categories including pipette tips. Additionally, federal ...

At a microscopic level, deformation in polymers involves stretching and rotating of molecular bonds. More commonly, one distinguishes the deformation mechanisms in polymers as brittle, ductile (with ...

Across the world, it is the same story. In all, 5.5 million tonnes of tiny plastic tubes, pipette tips and other lab waste is binned. Because the plastic has been used with hazardous chemicals or ...

Microplastics are everywhere, causing havoc in the environment. They’re in the oceans, in our food – even inside us. From ...

A new study finds that every year people create 57 million tons of plastic pollution. The material winds up everywhere from ...

Insert a filter into a clean plastic ... After 5–10 minutes, some liquid, called the filtrate, should have collected in the bottom of the cup. Get a test tube of cold alcohol. Use a pipette ...