Plastic straws are a common piece of trash that end up on Cape Cod beaches. But how long does it take for one that ends up in the ocean to break down? Local researchers at Woods Hole Oceanographic ...

The piece of plastic that caused the contamination is called a plate, but it’s more like a brick. It’s rectangular with 96 holes in the shape of tiny pipettes where DNA swabs are inserted for ...

I don’t spend much time thinking about the plastic 5-gallon bucket ... Maybe you have a small piece of wood to cut, or a few holes to drill in a piece of wood or metal. This little setup ...

The average lifespan of any piece of plastic is about 500 years. What's made out of plastic? More than you might imagine. There's the obvious: the milk jugs, grocery bags. But you might not ...

These tiny plastic particles can range in size from 5 millimeters (as small as a pencil eraser) to 1 nanometer, which can’t be seen with the naked eye, the Environmental Protection Agency ...

The world is littered with trillions of micro- and nanoscopic pieces of plastic. These can be smaller than a virus -- just the right size to disrupt cells and even alter DNA. Researchers find them ...