A polyester used by ground-nesting bees has a polyethylene-like structure but degrades rapidly in soil, US researchers find.

Tufts Pollinator Initiative/Tufts University Over 30 percent of all plastic produced on our planet is mismanaged. It ...

The company’s re/cycle StripPouch has at least 98% I’m green bio-based polyethylene, derived from renewable sugarcane.

Mulch films made from whole Ulva lactuca seaweed biomass lost about 65% of their mass after two months in soil and boosted ...

Plastic made by a bee, not a petrochemical, could provide answers to long-standing issues around ecological concerns raised ...

Food waste is something that inevitably appears in our daily cooking. Even though you put it in a plastic bag and tie it ...

A new review details solvent-free reactive extrusion methods that compatibilize immiscible polyethylene and polypropylene ...

The surface regions of polyethylene nucleated and crystallized in contact with both a high-energy surface (gold) and a low-energy surface (fluorinated ethylene-propylene copolymer Teflon) have been ...

Brazil-based Fortlev Solar has presented Aquafort, a floating PV system developed for reservoirs, lakes, ponds and dams, at Intersolar South America 2026, held from Aug. 25 to 27 at Expo Center Norte ...

Polyethylene pipe welding strength now has a molecular explanation: a Physical Review Letters study published August 2026 uses large-scale molecular dynamics simulations to show that HDPE pipe joints ...