Sunlight hits tiny particles of plastic floating in a clear water solution. Slowly, they begin to disappear, leaving behind a familiar household chemical: acetic acid, the main ingredient in vinegar.

The technique pioneered at Oak Ridge National Laboratory produces high-value-added chemicals from plastic waste without ...

Plastics are chemically complex. Right from their invention, polymer scientists have had to use a range of additives to make plastics functional and useful for real-world applications. Decades of ...

Plastic pollution is no longer just a story of bottles and bags drifting across the surface of the sea. As larger debris breaks down, it sheds microscopic fragments that quietly seep chemicals into ...