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

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

What will it take to, as the report recommends, end plastics pollution ... once plastic gets to a sorting facility, most items contain too many toxic chemicals to be safely recycled. As a result, ...

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 ...

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

Plastic Odyssey, a 40-metre floating lab, is on a global mission to combat plastic pollution by recycling waste into valuable ...

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

To address the growing threat of marine microplastic pollution in the Galapagos Islands, the IAEA's Nuclear Technology for Controlling Plastic ...

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 ...

Vijayawada: Foresters have raised concern over the dumping of plastic and other waste by ... 1,000 per head on tourists found throwing the waste around the eco-sensitive area.

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