Reducing plastic use this year should be on everyone’s radar, although it won’t be easy. According to the United Nations, ...

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, ...

As a result, plastics must be carefully sorted into relatively pure streams, which pushes up recycling costs and reduces efficiency. Mechanical recycling — the dominant method worldwide — involves ...

Of the 380 million tonnes of plastic produced worldwide every year, only around 18 per cent is currently recycled. The rest is either burned, sent to landfill, or dumped in the open – which is why ...

Plastics are very useful materials. They’ve contributed significant benefits to modern society. But the unprecedented amount of plastics produced over the past few decades has caused serious ...

Plastic is literally everywhere: It shows up in the ocean, in our communities, even in the human body. And because plastics can break down into microplastics — and even nanoplastics — it easily ...

There is no shortage of news about plastic’s ubiquity or its harms. Microplastics are in clouds, drinking water, playgrounds and our blood. Marine mammals are entangled in and ingest plastic at ...

Everything makes its way to the sea, and none more so than plastics. There are now five floating plastic islands in different oceans across the world, with the largest island even having a name, the ...

The vast majority of plastic that people use, and in many cases put into blue recycling bins, is headed to landfills, or worse, according to a report from Greenpeace on the state of plastic recycling ...

Editor’s note: This is the first entry in a series examining the causes, impacts and solutions to plastic pollution in the Great Lakes. Read the second, third and fourth stories here. HOLLAND, MI — ...

Half of clothes analyzed are made from virgin plastic, aka cheap petrochemicals. Katherine Martinko is an expert in sustainable living. She holds a degree in English Literature and History from the ...

If you order takeout in Los Angeles and your meal comes with a compostable fork made from PLA—a common bio-based plastic—you’re not supposed to toss the utensil in your curbside compost bin. The city ...