Tag: Plastic
Infusing asphalt with plastic could help roads last longer and resist...
Md S Hossain, University of Texas at Arlington
Globally, more than 400 million tons of plastic are produced each...
Grand Canyon’s Dragon Bravo megafire shows the growing wildfire threat to...
Faith Kearns, Arizona State University
As wildfire crews battled the Dragon Bravo Fire on the Grand Canyon’s North Rim...
What’s that microplastic? Advances in machine learning are making identifying plastics...
Ambuj Tewari, University of Michigan
Microplastics – the tiny particles of plastic shed when litter breaks down – are...
Can you trust companies that say their plastic products are recyclable?...
Patrick Parenteau, Vermont Law & Graduate School
Plastic is a fast-growing segment of U.S. municipal solid waste, and most...
Real or artificial? A forestry scientist explains how to choose the...
Every year, Americans buy somewhere between 35 million and 50 million Christmas trees, and many more pull an artificial tree out of...
Real or artificial? A forestry scientist explains how to choose the...
Curtis VanderSchaaf, Mississippi State University
Every year, Americans buy somewhere between 35 million and 50 million Christmas trees,...
New class of recyclable polymer materials could one day help reduce...
Katherine Harry, Colorado State University and Emma Rettner, Colorado State University
Hundreds of millions of tons of single-use plastic...
Lego’s ESG dilemma: Why an abandoned plan to use recycled plastic...
Tinglong Dai, Johns Hopkins University; Christopher S. Tang, University of California, Los Angeles, and Hau L. Lee, Stanford University
EXPLORING NATURE
Nanoparticles and artificial intelligence can help researchers detect pollutants in water,...
Andres B. Sanchez Alvarado, Rice University
Across the U.S., hundreds of sites on land or in lakes and rivers...
