University of Portsmouth provides funding as a member of The Conversation UK. Thousands of tonnes of plastic pollution could be escaping into the environment every year … from our mouths.

If you find that thought slightly unsettling, you are not alone. I have been researching and speaking about the plastic pollution problem for 15 years. The people I talk to are always surprised ...

ASEAN has become an attractive destination for petrochemical expansion and plastic waste exports, given its proximity to ...

Grandly christened the Plastic Odyssey, this 40-metre long ... currently set up in this West African country. While in the Philippines, the team has facilitated factories that can recycle ...

Plastic pollution along Australia’s metropolitan coastlines has dropped by more than a third over the last decade, according to new research by the country’s national science agency.

The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) has called for urgent and collective action against climate change ...

Plastic pollution has overwhelmed the world. So ubiquitous is this versatile material that it’s proving impossible to contain in landfills. Its uses are often short-lived; not much of it has ...

pyrolysis could reduce the amount of plastic waste pollution that ends up in landfills and oceans. Additionally, converting plastic waste into usable products could help lower the production ...

The damage caused by plastic pollution goes far beyond the digestive system. Beneath the skin of seemingly healthy seabirds, new research has revealed the widespread effect of plastics on crucial ...

KTLA’s new ocean conservation series ‘Saving Our Seas’ dives into one of the largest and most worrisome issues facing our planet… the plastic problem. It’s a compounding catastrophe that ...

Rodrigo Duterte, the former president of the Philippines, was arrested in the country’s capital Manila on Tuesday after the International Criminal Court issued a warrant against him as part of ...

MANILA, April 5 (Reuters) - The Philippines expressed alarm on Saturday over the arrest of three Filipinos in China on suspicion of espionage, saying they were ordinary citizens and the arrests ...