Plastic waste of all shapes and sizes permeates the world’s oceans. It shows up on beaches, in fish and even in Arctic sea ice. And a new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, ...

There is a staggering amount of plastic waste — an estimated 2.6 million tons — floating around our oceans right now. India’s government recently took steps to curb the ever-worsening plastic waste ...

The rapid accumulation of plastic waste is currently posing significant risks for both human health and the environment on ...

Imagine taking heaps and heaps of earth-polluting, unusable plastic waste and actually transforming it into something constructive? Plastic pollution is a proliferating and increasingly overwhelming ...

What if the looming calamities of climate change, plastic pollution, the energy crisis and our whole environmental doom-scroll are symptoms of just one malady and it’s something we actually can fix?

Over the long Memorial Day weekend, many attended parties and parades honoring those who served while celebrating being with loved ones. As you picture the day, images of those ubiquitous red solo ...

A new analysis published in the journal Nature Sustainability has revealed the most common items polluting the world's oceans and it calls for urgent action to curb the flow of garbage into marine ...

In a landfill, a plastic bottle can take more than a thousand years to break down. But a new process can transform polyethylene plastic in days, using bacteria to eat the waste and then turn it into a ...

Americans make 294 million tons of trash every year. About half of that goes straight to landfills. According to the Environmental Protection Agency, the most common material sent to landfills is food ...

In you’re a conscientious consumer, you’re probably trying to curb your use of virgin plastic by bringing your own tote bags to the grocery store and using refillable water bottles. Yet plastic lurks ...

“Plastic is not created equally,” says Heidi Kujawa, CEO of ByFusion. “It’s super complex, which is why this problem is really broken.” The very short version of the problem goes like this: Despite ...

A giant patch of garbage in the Pacific Ocean is now “an immense floating plastic habitat” for marine animals clinging to its plastic debris, researchers have found. Coastal plant and animal species ...