The field of Environmental Science has recently turned its focus towards the pervasive issue of plastic pollution, ...

Researchers at the University of Waterloo have developed a new way to tackle one of the world’s most persistent forms of ...

Learn how plastic pollution is creating new pathways for antibiotic resistance to become an even bigger public health threat.

Viruses living on plastic surfaces may help transfer antibiotic resistance genes among microbes in the environment.

Scientists at the University of Nottingham have discovered how specific surface patterns on plastics used for medical devices can drastically reduce the ability of bacteria to attach and multiply, ...

Researchers at the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology in Saudi Arabia have found that there are marine bacteria living in all the world’s oceans that are able to consume and digest ...

A deadly bacterial pathogen that is often found in hospitals and frequently resistant to drugs, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, is apparently able to degrade plastic that is commonly used in medical ...

Plastics entering natural environments quickly become coated with microbial biofilms called the 'plastisphere', known to be ...

We've already seen antibacterial surfaces that kill microbes on contact, but scientists in the UK have recently gone a different and potentially more effective route. They've created maze-like surface ...