Images of plastic mountains at landfills and islands of floating plastics in our oceans demonstrably show that we are living in an age of immense consumer consumption. A rising worldwide population ...

Come August, negotiators will congregate in Geneva for yet another round of talks on hammering out a Global Plastics Treaty, under the aegis of the United Nations Environment Programme. They will pick ...

FOR some years it was standard practice in these laboratories to pyrolyse polymers in an intimate mix with ignited silver sand under carefully controlled conditions in an inert partial atmosphere. The ...