Each time you toss your empty plastic milk jug into the commingle recycling bin, you likely end up contributing to a global market. That’s because after recyclables are collected and sorted, they’re ...

Chances are good that you’ve already lost some blood to thermoforming, the plastics manufacturing process that turns a flat sheet of material into an unopenable clamshell package, tray inside a box, ...

Will plastic production prosper on U.S. farmland in the near future? Could a farmer plant an engineered seed and harvest a plastic polymer? Skeptics beware, the proposition around growing a genuinely ...