Plastics Engineering Associate Professor Amir Ameli, left, winner of the $4,000 Sustainability Innovation Award, chats with ...

"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, ...

Each year, more than 380 million tons of plastics are produced globally. Less than 10% of these plastics are reused or recycled, leading to significant accumulation and waste, not to mention the ...

Two faculty researchers from the Department of Plastics Engineering have won grants for projects that aim to reduce the amount of plastic that ends up in landfills and the environment each year. Prof.

We live in a world of plastics. They have revolutionized medicine with life-saving devices, made space travel possible, lightened cars and planes (conserving fuel and lowering air pollution), and made ...

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Edtor's note: This is the first article in a three-part series surveying the careers landscape within the plastics industry. The following articles, focusing on equipment operators and operations ...

A plastic water bottle tossed into a recycling bin could, within 24 hours, become the raw material for one of the world’s ...

International researchers have genetically engineered two synthetic bacteria they say can help turn plastic waste into more useful chemicals. The two bacteria strains come from the soil bacterium ...

Scientists have developed algae capable of removing microplastics from water and converting them into reusable bioplastic.