Plastic use keeps rising rapidly while recycling struggles. Incineration grows steadily, but it may harm more than help.

The Plastic Odyssey left France two years ago with the objective of finding ways to reduce marine plastic pollution in the 30 ...

With the call to action “Start Local, Affect Global,” the St. Croix-based company is building scalable, island-first ...

There are likely hundreds of trillions of pieces of plastic floating around ... the world’s plastic waste is mismanaged or littered. Other major countries produced much fewer plastic pollution ...

Plastic Reboot is the first initiative at this scale aimed at addressing plastic pollution through upstream solutions in key ...

around 230km north of the main island of Male. There, environmental experts helped locals set up a sustainability laboratory for recycling plastic on site. Visitors can see first-hand how plastics ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Plastics are becoming more present in the seas and oceans around the world. The Mediterranean ... tool to facilitate better waste management at local and regional level, and informing and raising ...

As a result of the overconsumption of soft drinks in single-use plastic bottles, “due in significant part to Defendants’ ...

It’s up to the states to start reining in the growing problem of plastic pollution, and Staten Island’s state lawmakers can help.

This past winter, leaders from around the world gathered in South Korea to produce the first legally binding global treaty on plastics pollution ... flow of plastic and microplastic waste into ...

The community science initiative's mission is to track pollution ... use plastic is the worst offender, and we’re seeing the same brands commonly identified in waste audits all over the world ...