PET plastic bottles, food containers, and lightweight wrap for packaging have become a problem if they’re not recycled—but ...

A new type of plastic made directly from organic plant waste has been created by scientists at the Swiss Federal Institute of ...

From your phone battery to the Empire State Building, every single thing we as a species have created was made from things we found in nature. This includes, of course, plastics. Stock image ...

Next, the team used a technique called metagenomics to analyze the microbial gut community and find which gene-encoded enzymes were involved in degrading the plastic. One way to put the findings ...

They believe the beetle larvae digest the plastic through a gut enzyme. That could be significant for advancements in recycling, says one of the study's authors. "Superworms are like mini recycling ...

While other research has suggested that superworms, as well as smaller worms, can eat and digest plastic, Rinke and his team’s paper, published in Microbial Genomics, identifies for the first time ...

While the importance of recycling is regularly hammered home to us, plastic waste around the world is at an all-time high ... thanks to a bacterial enzyme in their gut. To test how effective ...

Researchers demonstrate the implementation of a remote laboratory activity to teach students about enzyme kinetics.

Cleaning up plastic waste is a doable but extremely difficult task. The fundamental issue is that plastic isn’t biodegradable. It takes an ungodly amount of time to break down—and when it does ...

Next, the team used a technique called metagenomics to analyze the microbial gut community and find which gene-encoded enzymes were involved in degrading the plastic. – Bio-upcycling – One way ...