Plastic pervades modern life, and menstruation is no exception. Since the middle of the 20 th century, many tampons and menstrual pads have contained somewhere between a little and a lot of plastic in ...

"UMass Lowell is among the nation's leading centers for plastics technology, and its Plastics Engineering program...is helping to push new boundaries of how these versatile materials are used, ...

Researchers studied the "thriving" species in a polluted mangrove forest in Colombia. Fragments of metal and plastic remain on beaches after shipping containers washed ashore. The black pellets known ...