A pet care products maker faces $278,000 in penalties after an employee suffered severe facial burns from a spray of molten plastic while cleaning a structural foam molding machine, federal safety ...

Most people who separate their plastic waste for recycling assume the bulk of it will in fact be recycled. But current recycling methods, which "require sorting, grinding, cleaning, remelting and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Oak Ridge National Laboratory Researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory have developed a new method to convert discarded ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Scientists are finding more evidence of a new, insidious form of plastic pollution: melted plastic that has melded with rocks, coral and other ...

Just as Marcel Proust could envision a 4200-page novel — In Search of Lost Time — simply from dipping a madeleine into tea, it’s similarly possible to see cosmological concepts about space-time in a ...