There are seven types of plastic, but it’s only practical to recycle three types in Malaysia. Since the other four kinds of plastic don’t get recycled in this country, the best solution is ...

reports the detection of 19 types of microplastic particles in the placentas and fetuses of pregnant cats in the early stages of pregnancy. The study was conducted by Ilaria Ferraboschi and colleagues ...

There are about 50 main types of plastic. Manufacturers use it because it is so easy and cheap to produce. For example, some car makers try to use plastic rather than metal for different car parts.

Plastics are durable and strong, which is great while they’re being used but frustrating when they end up in the environment.

Chelsea Rochman, a professor of ecology at the University of Toronto, soaked ground-up polyethylene, which is used to make some types of plastic bags ... for example—appear to impair lab ...

For example, they wash out to sea to form floating blobs ... ductile metal — and activated carbon to PET, the most common type of polyester plastic. The researchers then heated the mixture. After a ...

A CSIRO study has found 39% less plastic pollution in and around Australian coastal cities over ten years. It also found more ...