The bioplastics company, with an office in Shelton, collaborated with a UConn marine sciences team to evaluate the product’s ...

You may have seen images of seabirds that have built their nests on discarded nets, lengths of rope and other plastic litter, ...

A new study by US researchers has uncovered that babies born prematurely have higher levels of microplastics in their ...

The Ubiquity of Plastic in Our Lives Plastic has become an inevitable part of modern life. If you look around, almost ...

When the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement was passed in the 1970s, eutrophication was the big problem. Eutrophication occurs when too many nutrients enter a body of water, increasing the amount of ...

That explains the excitement around a chemical plant that will start commercial operations this year in northeast England. In ...

Researchers studied samples of human brains and found high levels of microplastics, but it's unclear how they slip past the ...

Those different uses require different types of plastics ... “And it’s not an easy thing to measure.” Some plastic pollution enters the environment in already tiny pieces, called nurdles ...

Ropes and fishing gear used in the fisheries and aquaculture industries are a major source of microplastics in the ocean and littering along the ...