Plastics

Plastics are a wide range of synthetic or semi-synthetic materials that use polymers as a main ingredient.

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Exxon and California Spar in Dueling Lawsuits Over Plastics

Researchers leverage advanced bioengineering techniques to develop plastics made from sustainable biomaterials - EurekAlert!

How Plastics Went from a Sustainability Solution to an Environmental Crisis

Plastics 'crisis' is costing $1.5tn in global deaths and injuries, report says

Announcing The Lancet Countdown on Health and Plastics - EurekAlert!

The Lancet: Plastic pollution is an underrecognised threat to health, experts warn as they launch a project to track plastics’ health impacts and monitor progress - EurekAlert!

Identifying chemicals of concern in plastics – and pathways towards safer polymers - EurekAlert!

Wax Moth Caterpillars Can Metabolically Degrade Plastics and Store Them as Body Fat: Study

Plastics in agriculture and food production: uses, properties, and impacts Results of the INRAE-CNRS collective scientific assessment - EurekAlert!

A chemical in plastics is tied to heart disease deaths

Plastics may trigger hormone disruption in seabirds, new study finds - EurekAlert!

Heart disease deaths worldwide linked to chemical widely used in plastics

Heart disease deaths worldwide linked to chemical widely used in plastics - EurekAlert!

Micro-nano-plastics found in artery-clogging plaque in the neck

How Everyday Plastics Quietly Turn Into DNA-Damaging Nanoparticles

'Spoonful of plastics in your brain’ paper has duplicated images

There’s a spoon of plastics in our brains.

New study reveals polymers with flawed fillers boost heat transfer in plastics - EurekAlert!

Polymers with flawed fillers boost heat transfer in plastics

Researchers engineer bacteria to produce plastics: « A bacterial energy storage system is modified to make polymers. »