Wesleyan University’s Ying Jia Tan, an associate professor of history, gave a talk at the University of Connecticut’s Wood Hall about the Taiwanese plastic industry in support of his upcoming book ...

“I want to say one word to you, Benjamin. Just one word — plastics!” This was the advice given to Benjamin Braddock played by Dustin Hoffman in the 1967 film, The Graduate. The movie tells the story ...

Northeast Ohio's colleges and universities aren't just for educating the next generation. They're also for helping to define and explain the future — and the past — through their groundbreaking ...

SANDWICH — Rolling papers, plastic water bottles, and take-out food containers will take center stage at the 2023 Sandwich annual town meeting. Voters will be asked to consider 26 articles during the ...

Notes: York is again leading the way in proposing a ban on single-use plastics, according to local historian James Kences. He points out that only nine years ago, in 2015, York banned the use of ...

The United Nations Environment Programme official who had chaired the global plastics treaty process is planning to step away ...

Bozeman, Montana, recently made history by becoming the first U.S. city to include a citizens' initiative regulating the use of single-use plastics on its Election Day ballot. The initiative passed ...

What springs to mind when you're asked to think of plastic chairs? Do you picture the ubiquitous lightweight, stackable polypropylene chair sold cheaply in hardware stores worldwide? Or perhaps you ...

Does trash belong in a museum? The creators of Archeoplastica think so, saying that displaying a range of plastic trash collected from waterways is a good way to connect with the public and help them ...