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

New research indicates there’s at least one strategy that works to curb an especially problematic and unnecessary form of ...

Explore the fascinating process of recycling massive amounts of plastic waste into durable HD pipes. Witness how discarded plastic bags are collected, processed, and transformed into strong, long ...

Plastic pollution is a huge problem—and it’s not too late to fix it. Correcting our plastic waste problem requires a fundamental change in thinking about how plastics are made, used, and ...

Plastic is a major contributor to climate change, as the primary raw materials used in its creation are coal, natural gas, and crude oil—all leading sources of harmful emissions.

The world currently produces more than 50 million tonnes of “mismanaged” plastic waste each year, and some researchers project this flood of pollution into the environment will double by mid ...

Countries are racing to finalize a U.N. treaty to end plastic pollution Negotiations over a U.N. treaty to cut plastics have been bogged down. Environmental groups blame the oil and gas industry.

To curb this flow, 175 nations are negotiating a binding international treaty on plastic pollution, with a completion target of late 2024. In July 2024, the Biden administration released the first ...

The world creates 57 million tons of plastic pollution every year and spreads it from the deepest oceans to the highest mountaintop to the inside of people's bodies, according to a new study that ...

UC Santa Barbara researchers and their colleagues estimate that without intervention, plastic pollution is on track to double by 2050. But in a study published in the journal Science, these same ...

Much plastic waste produced is single-use or packaging. Due to the difficulty of recycling plastic, less than 6% is recycled. The rest is landfilled, incinerated, or in our environment.