Plastic trash lining a mountain trail might not seem like the start of a chemistry breakthrough, but for Yuwei Gu, it was.

Plastic was designed to last, and it has delivered on that promise a little too well. After decades of treating packaging, textiles, and consumer goods as disposable, scientists are now racing to ...

Plastic has become embedded in everyday life. That’s because for the last 70 years, the plastics industry convinced consumers to embrace the... Creating a throw-away culture: How companies ingrained ...

New reports tracking the efforts to reduce plastic waste show some companies are making slow but steady progress to cut harmful plastics and increase reuse and recycling, but the world is still "off ...