Chemical and environmental engineers detailed a method to convert plastic waste into a highly porous form of charcoal that has a whopping surface area of about 400 square meters per gram of mass. It ...

More than 90% of plastic waste ends up in the soil, where it breaks down into microplastics that are invisible to the naked ...

Recycling and reclamation operations are overwhelmed by the volume of plastic waste in landfills, which has led to a global pollution crisis. Miscellaneous plastic waste could be put to good use as a ...

Jaipur: A recent study by the Central University of Rajasthan (CURaj) has found that soil health in cities has been deteriorating due to increasing plastic waste. Researchers said that compounds like ...

I have a tip that will save you money on your next landscape project. It will also save time and management costs: Use no plastic. That includes solid plastic sheets and the so-called weed-blocking ...

Plastic pollution is deteriorating the germination capacity of soil by killing larvae, microbes and earthworms that enriches the soil's fertility, said speakers at a seminar yesterday. They made the ...

University of California, Riverside, scientists have moved a step closer to finding a use for the hundreds of millions of tons of plastic waste produced every year that often winds up clogging streams ...