While digital ID cards are at the forefront of innovation, physical ID cards are not disappearing. Instead, they are evolving ...

Planet or Plastic? is National Geographic’s multiyear effort to raise awareness about the global plastic trash crisis. Come to this page often to learn more, and find out what you can do to ...

Fish eat thousands of tons of plastic a year, transferring it up the food chain to bigger fish and marine mammals. Microplastics are also consumed by people through food and in the air. It’s estimated ...

Jun. 15—STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — If you receive a phone call asking you to verify your identity to receive a new plastic Medicare card, hang up. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has issued a ...

Five years later Amex updated the premium luxury card from plastic to Titanium, further adding to the allure and exclusivity of the card. Since then other issuers have released their versions of a ...

Plastic surgery is often associated with cosmetic procedures like nose jobs or liposuctions. And while these are an important aspect of what plastic surgeons do, they're not the only focus. These ...

For many of us, plastic containers are part of our daily lives; we use them to store, freeze, heat and transport a variety of different foods. But some scientists are concerned that the chemicals ...

You see photos of plastic pollution in the ocean, but it can be hard to connect that to the plastic you're buying and using every day. Here are three ways the plastic you throw away can end up in the ...

Single-use plastic has always been a concern of Caitlin Broadbent, a sustainability technician at King’s College London. Each month, researchers in the institute’s Drosophila fly facilities ...

PHOTOGRAPHED AT MARINE BIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION, PLYMOUTH, U.K.; PLASTIC IDENTIFICATION PROVIDED BY UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH Plastic waste, mostly from rivers or careless dumping on land, washes into ...

Raman spectroscopy was subsequently used for plastic identification ... spectral libraries and also supports the creation of custom libraries. In this analysis, BWID matched the blue fragment ...

"Only 5% of single-use plastic is recycled in the U.S.," according to the AG. In a first-of-its-kind lawsuit, California Attorney General Rob Bonta is suing ExxonMobil for the company's alleged ...