For more than two years, the UN member states have been trying to agree on a plastics treaty that includes globally binding measures against plastic pollution. In August, negotiations to reach an ...

Binghamton PhD student Tianzheng Liu, left, and Department of Biomedical Engineering Professor Sha Jin have developed a method to turn food waste into biodegradable plastic. According to the U.S.

In a landfill, a plastic bottle can take more than a thousand years to break down. But a new process can transform polyethylene plastic in days, using bacteria to eat the waste and then turn it into a ...

TIRUCHY: Machines in most micro compost centres (MCCs) in Tiruchy city are facing frequent machine breakdowns every year and are operating with inadequate maint ...

Students at a Birmingham university helped to solve a 'long-standing problem' at the NHS. More than 1.4 billion disposable ...