plastics

When it launches next month, the Plastic Disclosure Project -- which surprisingly has strong backing from investors -- plans to expose corporations that are contributing to plastic waste when it launches next month.

Imagine fertilizing your garden with car parts. That's the dream of Debbie Mielewski and her team of bio-engineers at the Ford Research and Innovation Center in Dearborn, Mich. I was invited to check out how Mielewski's Plastics Research Group is engineering an earth-friendlier plastic, at a time...

There's nothing like finding something new to worry about. This week, it's bisphenol A.If you haven't heard, it's a chemical used in plastics, and as the Washington Post recently reported, the U.S. National Toxicology Program recently wondered in a draft report if baby bottles made with bisphenol A...