There are lots of UV absorbers, depending on the material and color of the plastic (carbon black is a popular one, but doesn’t work for white or clear plastics). Quenchers are more like doctors ...

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 ...

The Center for Biological Diversity is tackling this problem on multiple fronts. We’ve petitioned the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency asking the government to regulate plastics as a pollutant ...

For a consumer, this problem would be simpler to handle if it was clear that only certain black plastic products posed a risk, or that all of them did. But Turner found that products were ...

NFL TEAMS HAVE ENHANCED PUBLIC SAFETY AND IMPROVED STADIUM ACCESS FOR FANS To provide a safer environment for the public and significantly expedite fan entry into stadiums, NFL teams have ...

Plastic waste is everywhere you look, and there’s seemingly no end in sight for both the demand and production of plastic goods. So isn’t it time to try putting all that waste from the plastic ...

ASBURY PARK – Plastics, from bottle caps to food wrappers, still lead the list of debris collected from the semi-annual Clean Ocean Action beach sweeps, organizers said Saturday during the most ...

This story is part of Planet or Plastic?—our multiyear effort to raise awareness about the global plastic waste crisis. Learn what you can do to reduce your own single-use plastics, and take ...

The air raid warning system was developed in 1938/9. The sound of the 'warning' signal and the 'all clear' would become very familiar to people living in large cities in Britain. Air raid sirens ...

Contaminated plastics often cannot be processed alongside clean plastics, leading to higher rejection rates at recycling facilities. Even when the packaging is rinsed out, the presence of strong ...

Plastics are ubiquitous in natural systems, and tiny pieces of the material have been found everywhere from the Arctic to the Mariana Trench. To test a theory that satellites could help detect the ...