The answer depends on the type of roof you have and where you live. Q: I live in a two-story, single-family home with an ...

Easter Island, the tiny remote speck of land in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, is stuck in an oceanic vortex of plastic. According to municipal data from Rapa Nui, the island's local name, it ...

In black lettering on cardboard, one of the signs facing Ridge Meadow Drive read ... He had resorted to using plastic ...

A council with one of the worst recycling rates in the country will switch to fortnightly bin collections next year, with ...

Scientists discovered that bacteria commonly found in wastewater can break down plastic to turn it into a food source, a finding that researchers hope could be a promising answer to combat one of ...

Graphical abstract. Credit: Environmental Science & Technology (2024). Plastic pollution is a global problem, and much of it comes from polyethylene terephthalate (PET), a common plastic used in ...

A new study finds a bacterium in this family can break down the plastic for food ... Aristilde asked collaborators at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee to prepare bacterial cells without ...

NORTH CAROLINA (WJZY) — The country’s most-visited national park site, Blue Ridge Parkway, will remain closed indefinitely, the National Park Service said Wednesday. The closure affects the ...

Aristilde asked collaborators at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee to prepare bacterial cells without the abilities to express the enzyme. Remarkably, without that enzyme, the bacteria’s ...

Now, Northwestern University-led researchers have discovered how cells of a Comamonas bacterium are breaking down plastic for food ... asked collaborators at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in ...