Ahead of the UNEP-hosted World Environment Day, here’s a closer look at what plastic pollution is, why it’s such a problem ...

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

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 ...

Renowned for their incredible range of subspecies and unique evolutionary adaptations, the Galapagos Islands are sometimes referred to as a ‘living laboratory of evolution’ because of their isolated ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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