You may have seen images of seabirds that have built their nests on discarded nets, lengths of rope and other plastic litter, ...

Researchers found marine fungi capable of breaking down plastic. They tested fungi from Hawai‘i’s nearshore waters.

Plastic and plastic recycling has been a major global issue for decades, but scientists have found a lot of intriguing ways ...

The bioplastics company, with an office in Shelton, collaborated with a UConn marine sciences team to evaluate the product’s ...

Researchers at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa recently discovered that many species of fungi isolated from Hawai‘i’s nearshore environment have the ability to degrade plastic and some can be ...

Ropes and equipment used in fishing and aquaculture are a major source of microplastics in the ocean and litter along the ...

We find chain scission in melts requires activating plastic dissipation that is multiple orders of magnitude larger than the chemical work required to break a covalent backbone bond. Our findings ...

Global Production Every year, the world produces a staggering 400 million tons of plastic. This sheer volume of production is difficult to visualize, but imagine a line of garbage trucks, bumper to ...