A 2017 study showed that of the 8.3 billion metric tons of plastic ever created, only 9 percent has even been recycled. The majority — about 5 billion metric tons — is languishes in landfills ...

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 ... Matthew Brown did in front of us -- the ...

Stapleton: A microplastic is anywhere between one micron and five millimeters in size. That’s about the ... significantly higher concentrations of plastic particles in them than the tissues ...

not plastic fish but real fish. And the stool testing revealed up to nine different small (50 and 500 micrometers) particles of plastics, an average of 20 microplastic (less than 5 millimeters ...

Last time we talked about a video that purported to do plastic welding, we mentioned that the process wasn’t really plastic welding as we understood it. Judging by the comments, many people ...

check out this installment of Retrotechtacular. A more practical application of resin might be this technique to reproduce vintage plastic parts.

Planet or Plastic? is National Geographic’s multiyear effort to raise awareness about the global plastic trash crisis. Come to this page often to learn more, and find out what you can do to ...

Previous estimates and computer simulations indicated that 22 million pounds of plastic debris ... humans consume 0.1 to 5 grams — or an amount similar to the size of a credit card — of ...

If it seems like plastic surrounds nearly every cucumber, apple and pepper in the produce aisle, it does. What began with cellophane in the 1930s picked up speed with the rise of plastic clamshells in ...