Now, new research, published Friday in Science Advances, reexamines the U.S.’s role as a plastic consumer and concludes that the country has much more work to do at home to manage its waste.

Plastic is a product that is ubiquitous in today's society, says Sarah Morath, Wake Forest professor of law and author of the book "Our Plastic Problem and How to Solve It." The World Bank ...

More information: Pseudomonas aeruginosa clinical isolates can encode functional plastic-degrading enzymes that allow survival on plastic and augment biofilm formation., Cell Reports (2025). DOI ...

In the U.S. alone, about 4 to 5 billion plastic pill bottles are thrown away each year. That’s enough plastic to circle the Earth multiple times. While they might seem harmless, these bottles ...

Microwaves have come a long way since they were first introduced into homes as a quick and easy way to prep a meal, and so has our understanding of them. Microwaves create electromagnetic ...

ROANOKE, La. (WVUE) - Burt Tietje is a third-generation Louisiana rice farmer, who now spends half of his time harvesting crawfish. The German grain farmers who settled in Jefferson Davis Parish ...

IT’S JUST GETTING ALL THE CRAWFISH READY, ALL THE SIDES, ALL THE WASHING, ALL THE CRAWFISH, GETTING ALL THE SEAFOOD, GETTING ALL THE PREPARATION IS OUT OF THIS WORLD FOR EASTER, EASTER WEEKEND.

This year’s crawfish season has been particularly strong, with good-sized crawfish available since December, said Crawfish Café co-owner Kiet Duong. In the sorting area, Duong explained the ...

In 2023, plastic surgeons in the United States performed nearly 1.8 million cosmetic surgeries, a marked increase from the previous year. As demand for cosmetic procedures continues to rise ...

Cutting down on the production of virgin plastics is essential, campaigners say, in the face of such low reuse rates. Global plastic recycling rates are now stuck at under 10 per cent, a ...

Influencer Livvy Dunne, a gymnastics team member at Louisiana State University (LSU), recently shared a TikTok video about “how to take the ‘poo vein’ out of crawfish.” The Sports Illustra ...