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plastics
Perri Thaler • July 21, 2025
Should I be scrubbing my Skippy’s jar or not?
Jenaye Johnson • January 4, 2024
Plastic-eating enzymes in the guts of mealworms are one of many bug-centric ideas being studied, but environmentalists say it dodges the real solution: use less
Allison Parshall, Delaney Dryfoos • October 12, 2022
And what are the iconic clogs even made of, anyway?
Casey Crownhart • February 4, 2021
Enzymatic recycling might offer a new method of recycling water bottles and other plastics, researchers say
Chloe Williams • April 16, 2018
From face cream to fertilizers, all sorts of products are under development to make use of soaring jellyfish populations
Meghan Bartels • March 28, 2016
New York City should put a price on single-use bags
JoAnna Klein • August 9, 2015
A couple’s crusade against ocean plastic attacks a vast problem from multiple angles.