Try to go an hour without touching something plastic. Come on, I dare you. The stuff is everywhere. Think about it. Everything from your toilet seat to the electronic devices you constantly use ...

Scientists from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory are winners of the 2024 Gizmodo Science Fair for creating a plastic that can be infinitely recycled. Can you design a new type of plastic that ...

Hundreds of millions of tons of plastic are produced globally every year. New research shows how that waste can be turned ...

Plastic is one of the most durable materials humans have ever made. That durability has made it indispensable in medicine, ...

Microplastics are exactly what they sound like: tiny pieces of plastic that persist in the environment. Many are smaller than a sesame seed; some are far smaller than the width of a human hair. What ...

Plastoline, a fuel made from everyday plastic waste, powers a Rolls-Royce for the first time, showing a new path for clean, ...

We don’t often think of our clothing as plastic, but much of it is. Polyester, nylon, acrylic and other synthetic fibers are commonplace in the blended fabrics we wear every day. As a result, textiles ...

The surging tide of microplastics is already an environmental and health threat, but as the world heats up — driving increasingly extreme weather — it’s transforming them into “more mobile, persistent ...