A video posted by TikToker Waste-Ed (@getwasteed) with almost 700 comments showed that most plastic bags marketed as being biodegradable are really just a sack of lies. In the video, a filthy, ...

Plastic that behaves like a sturdy fork on your picnic table and then quietly melts back into the soil sounds like science fiction, yet chemists are now doing something close by turning ordinary milk ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Global plastic production has increased from 369 million tons in 2016 to 404.5 million metric tons in 2020, partly due to ...

Sun Ferreira, an assistant professor in the food science department for the University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture, is a co-author of a review article published in Trends in Food ...

A new study tracked the ability of natural, synthetic, and blended fabrics to biodegrade directly in the ocean. Plastic pollution is seemingly omnipresent in society, and while plastic bags, cups, and ...

The world has a big plastic problem that it's yet to fix. We're trying to reduce our reliance on plastic, but that's seemingly impossible in modern society. The material is too important for our daily ...

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. — On Earth Day 2025, Arkansas researchers are calling attention to the growing plastic pollution crisis and urging a multi-tiered approach to reduce the environmental and health ...

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