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The Angel Academe EIS Fund, managed by SyndicateRoom, has announced its second investment: a significant stake in LabCycle, the UK’s first circular economy solution for laboratory plastic waste.

Biomedical and biological research laboratories produce substantial amounts of plastic waste, much of it disposable. Estimates indicate that each researcher may produce up to 0.95 tons of waste per ...

GreenLabs Recycling, a Concord, Mass.-based lab science plastics recycling startup, is expanding its business nationally through a partnership with French environmental services company Veolia.

Since 1950, humanity has produced more than 8.3 billion metric tons of plastic. Most has ended up in landfills or the environment. Now, scientists are working on biological solutions to address the ...

The Stache Lab at Cornell, led by Prof. Erin Stache, chemistry and chemical biology, has discovered an efficient way to decompose non-biodegradable plastic polystyrene — a material commonly used in ...

Single-use plastic has always been a concern of Caitlin Broadbent, a sustainability technician at King’s College London. Each month, researchers in the institute’s Drosophila fly facilities discard ...

Growing up in Haiti, Ludmilla Aristilde saw environmental catastrophes all around her. Dirty water led to a devastating cholera epidemic. Deforestation left soil open to erosion, flooding and other ...

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While a common family of bacteria, Comamonadaceae, grow on plastics in urban rivers and wastewater systems, it was unclear how these bacteria interact with and break down plastic. Professor Ludmilla ...

STORY: Scientists say this newly-isolated fungus is showing promising results in breaking down polypropylene. And that could make it a useful tool in the battle against the plastic waste crisis. :: ...