How did toxic plastics become so pervasive? How do they endanger our health? And what can we do to address this crisis? Hear from Judith Enck, founder of Beyond Plastics. How did toxic plastics become ...

WASHINGTON, United States — If there's one material that defines modern life more than any other, it's plastic: present from the moment we're born in newborn stool, in product packaging, in the soil ...

From its origins to its everyday impacts, the lifecycle of plastic mirrors the logic and values of colonization, including the priority of profit. One of my favorite things to do is go shell hunting ...

Seeing plastic trash while hiking inspired a Rutgers chemist to rethink why synthetic plastics last forever while natural polymers don’t. By mimicking tiny structural features used in DNA and proteins ...

Rutgers Chemist Yuwei Gu (at left) and graduate student Shaozheng Yin employ a gel permeation chromatography machine to measure the size of polymers and how they break down. Yuwei Gu was hiking ...