President Donald Trump signed an executive order last week to end the federal procurement of paper straws. The order, which ...

On a bright but chilly February morning, around a dozen volunteers gather by the beachfront at Minster, on the Isle of ...

PIRG partnered with the Charleston Chapter of the Surfrider Foundation and the Charleston Waterkeeper to hold a plastic ...

Love the Boot Week, held annually in April, is Louisiana’s largest litter removal and beautification effort. This year, KLB ...

Plastic pollution backgrounder - Links to UN organizations, documents, publications, speeches and statements, UN conferences and observances ...

Over the past decade, the plastic straw came to symbolize a global pollution crisis. Here's more about the larger fight over ...

The seals on milk carton – these are the little plastic hoops that break off when a carton or bottle cap is first opened, and birds in particular are at risk from them becoming wedged onto their beaks ...

Garbage dropped by tourists can pose a serious risk to Nara's famous deer, but a new group is cleaning up the town.

Hanging poo trees and drivers dumping rubbish from their cars are on TV presenter Julia Bradbury's hit list as she rallies the nation to join the Great British Spring Clean 2025 ...

The seabin was floated in the River Nene in Peterborough to extract debris, particularly microscopic particles which cannot ...

As peckish deer chase delighted tourists in Japan’s temple-dotted Nara Park, a quiet but dedicated team of litter-pickers patrols the stone paths, collecting plastic waste that threatens the animals’ ...