"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, ...

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Items that contain ingredients and packaging like plastic and aluminum from other countries will also be hit. Perishable food prices will rise first, followed by shelf-stable goods. Customers may ...

Today, the Council and the European Parliament provisionally agreed on a regulation on preventing the loss of plastic pellets – the industrial raw materials used to make plastic products – into the ...

Inside a New Mexico lab, researchers estimate there is five bottle caps worth of plastic in human brains. Now they are trying to find out its effects. By Nina Agrawal Nina Agrawal shadowed ...

The American sausage company notified the USDA's Food Safety and Inspection Service that it received two complaints from customers about finding plastic material in the meat. So far, there are no ...

LAKE CITY, S.C. (WBTW) — A Florence man died in a “work related incident” Saturday morning at Nan Ya Plastics Corporation, the Florence County Coroner’s Office said on Sunday. Marron ...

[Justice] Department components shall take appropriate action to identify and eliminate any portion of policy or guidance documents designed to disfavor plastic straws. —Memo from the Office of ...

A plastic surgeon has been found guilty of attempting to murder a colleague he wanted "out of the way" because he was a witness against him in disciplinary proceedings. Jonathan Peter Brooks ...