Plastic that conducts electricity and metal that weighs no more than a feather? It sounds like an upside-down world. Yet researchers have succeeded in making plastics conductive and cutting production ...

You don't have to swim through the Pacific Ocean's infamous garbage patch to know that human civilization has a plastic problem. A dip in the Gulf of Mexico right now also isn't necessary to realize ...

Every year, consumers in the United States produce millions of tons of plastic waste, and most of it winds up in landfills. New research from chemists takes a first step toward making all that trash ...

Chemists at CU Boulder have developed a new way to recycle a common type of plastic found in soda bottles and other packaging. The team’s method relies on electricity and some nifty chemical reactions ...

Plastics have proven to be a revolutionary class of materials, that are durable, lightweight, water resistant and relatively inexpensive and easy to manufacture. It is hard to think of a modern piece ...