Connecticut-based company partners with laboratories to explore how enzymes can break down plastic and textile scrap to make new resins. Protein Evolution says its technique can create rPET resin “is ...

Americans overestimate the amount of plastic reused and recycled each year, according to a study conducted by Wakefield Research on behalf of Protein Evolution (PEI). More than four in five Americans ...

One reason plastic waste persists in the environment is because there’s not much that can eat it. The chemical structure of most polymers is stable and different enough from existing food sources that ...

As the toymaker swaps oil-based plastic for recycled materials, Eleanor Maciver of Mewburn Ellis explores what this signals for patent filings and litigation.

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch now holds tens of thousands of tons of plastic pieces, along with dozens of species that call ...