October 2024 PFQAC attended the Centreville Middle School event yesterday Oct 24th!

October 2024 Bottlenose dolphins in Sarasota Bay in Florida and Barataria Bay in Louisiana are exhaling microplastic fibers, according to our new research published in the journal PLOS One. Click here to learn more

Kerry Burns as a Used Yogurt Container- Oct 2024 My story… as a plastic yogurt container To start my yogurt containing career, I was forged from polypropylene, a type of plastic suitable for food storage. This is important to know because my degradation journey is based on my chemical structure and physical characteristics. In particular, polypropylene is a rigid and very crystalline structure, which makes it difficult for microorganisms to degrade (Maddah 2016). Also, I am a relatively low...