Community-led research from UCSB’s Benioff Ocean Science Laboratory spans three years, four continents and eight countries to reveal the scale of river plastic waste and offer solutions to stop it at ...

The Lancet: Plastic pollution is an underrecognised threat to health, experts warn as they launch a project to track plastics’ health impacts and monitor progress Ahead of the expected finalisation of ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Within 15 years, a garbage truck’s worth of plastic could be entering our environment every second. Not every ...

A new study shines a light on the enormous scale of uncollected rubbish and open burning of plastic waste in the first ever global plastics pollution inventory. Researchers used A.I. to model waste ...

A new report has been released by Germany-based ocean plastic recovery startup CleanHub that highlights ocean plastic pollution this year, as well as a look into its complex origins and what the ...

As United Nations members negotiate a new treaty to end plastic pollution, they must balance top-down efforts to curb production with support for on-the-ground initiatives that remove and recycle ...

World leaders are in Ottawa negotiating a treaty to end plastic pollution. The US, a major plastic exporter, says its a dealmaker but is under pressure to be more ambitious. Plastic production is on ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Jamie Hailstone is a U.K-based reporter, who covers sustainability. TOPSHOT - A gigantic hydraulic and solar-powered machine ...

Bangladesh generates around 87,000 tons of single-use plastics annually, of which 96% are directly discarded as garbage. Due to lack of awareness, many people dump plastic waste at convenience, which ...

The surging tide of microplastics is already an environmental and health threat, but as the world heats up — driving increasingly extreme weather — it’s transforming them into “more mobile, persistent ...