How to read plastic recycling symbols and know what plastics can be recycled

Knowing your symbols makes it easier to reuse and recycle. Groups 1, 2, and 5 are easy to recycle curbside, but groups 4, 6, ...

What’s that microplastic? Advances in machine learning are making identifying plastics in the environment more reliable

Microplastics – the tiny particles of plastic shed when litter breaks down – are everywhere, from the deep sea to Mount Everest, and many researchers worry that they could harm human health. I am a ...

Scientists Confirm Widespread Microplastics in Milk and Cheese

Researchers in Italy’s University of Padua detected plastic particles in nearly every dairy sample they tested, with the ...
MIT Technology Review

How we could turn plastic waste into food

Using bacteria to take a bite out of plastic pollution is not new. But can the same microbes be used as a food source? In 2019, an agency within the U.S. Department of Defense released a call for ...
Food & Wine

Here’s Why You Should Probably Stop Using Your Plastic Cutting Board

Melissa Kravitz Hoeffner has spent over a decade working as a writer in New York City. She currently covers all aspects of food, dining, travel and lifestyle trends and the intersection of culture, ...
Yahoo

How single-stream recycling works − and how your choices can make it work better

Every week, millions of Americans toss their recyclables into a single bin, trusting that their plastic bottles, aluminum cans and cardboard boxes will be given a new life. Plastics are among the ...
Science Daily

New process vaporizes plastic bags and bottles, yielding gases to make new, recycled plastics

Chemists have developed a catalytic process that turns the largest component of today's plastic waste stream, polyolefin plastic bags and bottles, into gases -- propylene and isobutylene -- that are ...
CNET

Ziploc, Rubbermaid Sued Over Microplastics: Should You Ditch Plastic Containers?

Plastic storage poses a risk of leaking microplastics into edible items when frozen or microwaved. Here's how you can reduce your exposure. Taylor Leamey wrote about all things wellness for CNET, ...
Yahoo

This Simple Step Could Cut Microplastics in Your Water by 90%

Findings published by researchers in China reveal that boiling water can be an effective way to remove microplastics from the liquid. When water is boiled, naturally occurring minerals like calcium ...
University of California

New process vaporizes plastic bags and bottles, yielding gases to make new, recycled plastics

A new chemical process can essentially vaporize plastics that dominate the waste stream today and turn them into hydrocarbon building blocks for new plastics. The catalytic process, developed at the ...
Food & Wine

This Simple Step Could Cut Microplastics in Your Water by 90%

The trick to removing microplastics from drinking water might be much easier than we all expected. Findings published by researchers in China reveal that boiling water can be an effective way to ...