“I want to say one word to you, Benjamin. Just one word — plastics!” This was the advice given to Benjamin Braddock played by Dustin Hoffman in the 1967 film, The Graduate. The movie tells the story ...

Plastics have been touted as a miracle material by some, and criticized as artificial and toxic by others. But, nowadays, it's hard to imagine... Plastics have been touted as a miracle material by ...

The United Nations Environment Programme official who had chaired the global plastics treaty process is planning to step away ...

Americans' use of plastic boomed during the pandemic, including mountains of single-use items such as takeout containers, plastic bags and, of course, face masks. At the same time, we're recycling ...

Plastic is a product that is ubiquitous in today's society, says Sarah Morath, Wake Forest professor of law and author of the book "Our Plastic Problem and How to Solve It." The World Bank estimates ...

As recently as the 1960s, perhaps later—within the life span of Tom Hanks, and within a few years of when the world was using its very first ATMs and contraceptive pills—nearly all of the planet’s sea ...

"Have you been hearing about plastics, especially microplastics, lately?” I asked my husband. He spends a lot of time reading online, so he is often my gauge for column topics. I wondered what he had ...

Tom Brady is under no illusions that he will become a best-selling author. But he believes he has an important story to tell — actually three — when it comes to the history of the PET bottle and how ...