An astonishing marine fungus eating away at debris in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is providing hope as a natural solution to a common toxic plastic waste. As detailed on Phys.org, microbiologists ...

Candy wrappers. Balloons. Grocery bags. Every day, the equivalent of 2,000 full garbage trucks worth of plastic gets dumped in the world's oceans. Scientists have long known that plastic waste is ...

Marine fungi isolated from around O'ahu eating polyurethane plastic. The translucent halos around the fungal plugs on the Petri dish show the areas of plastic degradation. Plastic is the most ...

At a large warehouse full of roaring recycling machines, Chloé Dubois stands beside a sack full of thousands of tiny plastic pellets. Previously fishing ropes and nets, the pellets are now giving new ...

Researchers have unlocked the energy-positive potential of hydrothermal liquefaction (HTL) to convert marine plastic waste into bio-crude without intensive pretreatment. The research, published in ...

A study published today in the weekly journal Science projects that at present rates the world's plastic waste will nearly double by 2050, imperiling waterways and seas already under threat. But ...