Plastic waste
Up to 11 million tonnes of plastic pollution is sitting on the ocean floor
Ocean floor a 'reservoir' for plastic pollution, world-first study finds.
Upcycling hard-to-recycle plastics into useful material
Rice lab turned wind turbine material into a useful semiconductor.
Plastic-eating fungi thriving in plastisphere offer exciting possibilities for tackling global waste
Unique ecological niche identified for the first time dubbed ‘terrestrial plastisphere’.
Nano-plastics disrupt the growth of the heart, eyes, and nervous system
Malformations in heart, eyes and nervous system.
AWI researchers have analyzed the origins of plastic debris in the Arctic
The findings show that even prosperous industrialised countries make significant contributions.
Satellites can be used to identify waste sites on Earth
A new computational system uses satellite data to identify sites on land where people dispose of waste, providing a new tool to monitor waste...
New way to make compostable plastics break down more easily
Solving a problem that has flummoxed the plastics industry and environmentalists.
Microplastics are more ubiquitous than science had known
Scientists find microplastics everywhere.
Upcycling PET plastic waste into a nanomaterial for supercapacitors
The breakthrough could reduce plastic pollution and hasten the transition to 100% clean energy.
Highest levels of microplastic ever recorded on the seafloor
More than 10 million tons of plastic waste enters the oceans every year. Floating plastic waste at sea has attracted the public's interest on...
How submarine sediment avalanches transport microplastics into the deep ocean?
Much of the macro- and microplastic in the ocean ends up on the seafloor, with some of the highest concentrations reported in submarine canyons...