A new chemical process can essentially vaporize plastics that dominate the waste stream today and turn them into hydrocarbon building blocks for new plastics. The catalytic process, developed at the ...

Bottled water is up to a hundred times worse than previously thought when it comes to the number of tiny plastic bits it contains, a new study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ...

Reusing plastic bottles or exposing them to heat or sunlight can lead to the release of harmful chemicals such as bisphenol A (BPA) and phthalates that can leach into the water and interfere with the ...