The world produces over 100 million tons of plastic a year, which could take hundreds of years to fully degrade, but ...

Countries are currently negotiating a global treaty to end plastic pollution and make plastics safer and more sustainable.

Products were distributed in New York, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Maryland, Virginia, Washington, D.C., North ...

Plastic pollution tends to float near the surface and build up in large, rotating ocean currents known as gyres. The ...

Researchers find that nationwide policies to ban plastic bags may be paying off, with fewer showing up during coastal ...

As shiny, pearl-like white plastic pellets rode wave after wave and piled up on the beaches of Thiruvananthapuram in India’s ...

This research could represent the first documented case of paracetamol production from plastic waste using E. coli bacteria.

Swiss Re's annual emerging risk report has put the spotlight on plastics as a significant threat to insurers, with scientific advances in causation and source attribution potentially sparking rapid ...

A chemical commonly found in sunscreen could be making plastic in oceans even harder to break down, according to University ...

Woolworths say potential plastic contamination of beef mince has forced a recall of products. The 1kg and 500g packs of ...