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The NexTrex Grassroots Movement offers profitable solution for discarded plastic film.

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Australian student Maisy Whitehead, now attending the University of York in the U.K., has created a new biopolymer from ...

In a world overrun with plastic garbage, causing untold environmental woes, University of Houston assistant professor of ...

By spinning bacteria in a controlled flow, scientists produce aligned cellulose sheets with tensile strength over 500 MPa.

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No country receives more discarded plastic from wealthy countries, but shipments from the United States are no longer welcome ...

Plastic bag policies led to a 25% to 47% reduction in the amount of disposable, thin plastic bag litter on America's ...

A chemical commonly found in sunscreen could be making plastic in oceans even harder to break down, according to University ...