A new study finds a bacterium in this family can break down the plastic for food. Researchers also identified the enzyme the bacterium use to degrade plastic. The discovery opens new possibilities ...

Polyamide-imides are applied in demanding engineering applications. Solvay Advanced Polymer's Torlon® is a well-known example of a polyamide-imide engineering resin that is also used to mold, extrude ...

Black-colored plastic used in children’s toys, takeout containers, kitchen utensils and grocery meat and produce trays may contain alarming levels of toxic flame retardants that may be leaching ...

Its most famous project, the Wayback Machine, is a repository of web pages ... Internet Archive, music labels have alleged that the Internet Archive infringed on copyright by digitizing recordings.

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Plastic is a fast-growing segment of U.S. municipal ... programs are not widely available for some types of resins. Other labels use a version of the symbol for products such as single-use grocery ...

For the past couple years, the United Nations has been negotiating a plastics treaty — a binding agreement that could set firm limits on plastic production, establish commitments to reducing ...

A man who has fixed more than 500 pinball machines from the converted double garage of his home believes they are making a comeback. Mark Squires, from Swavesey, near St Ives, Cambridgeshire ...

In a report published in Marine Pollution Bulletin, researchers from Kyushu University have for the first time, provided a clear numerical target for global efforts to tackle marine plastic pollution.