Try to go an hour without touching something plastic. Come on, I dare you. The stuff is everywhere. Think about it. Everything from your toilet seat to the electronic devices you constantly use ...

Wesleyan University’s Ying Jia Tan, an associate professor of history, gave a talk at the University of Connecticut’s Wood Hall about the Taiwanese plastic industry in support of his upcoming book ...

The United Nations Environment Programme official who had chaired the global plastics treaty process is planning to step away ...

But now a new study argues that modern plastics are also a valuable archive documenting activities and behaviors at a crucial time in our human history. Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest ...

“I want to say one word to you, Benjamin. Just one word — plastics!” This was the advice given to Benjamin Braddock played by Dustin Hoffman in the 1967 film, The Graduate. The movie tells the story ...

Northeast Ohio's colleges and universities aren't just for educating the next generation. They're also for helping to define and explain the future — and the past — through their groundbreaking ...

Notes: York is again leading the way in proposing a ban on single-use plastics, according to local historian James Kences. He points out that only nine years ago, in 2015, York banned the use of ...

Bozeman, Montana, recently made history by becoming the first U.S. city to include a citizens' initiative regulating the use of single-use plastics on its Election Day ballot. The initiative passed ...

Does trash belong in a museum? The creators of Archeoplastica think so, saying that displaying a range of plastic trash collected from waterways is a good way to connect with the public and help them ...