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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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.

California Attorney General Rob Bonta (D) filed a lawsuit Monday against ExxonMobil Corp., alleging the company has engaged in a decades-long effort to mislead the public about the recyclability ...

As plastic waste piles up in the world’s landfills, sewer systems and oceans, the United Nations has set a goal to reduce plastic pollution by 80 percent by the year 2040.

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 ...

The United States ranks 90th in plastic pollution with more than 52,500 tons (47,600 metric tons) and the United Kingdom ranks 135th with nearly 5,100 tons (4,600 metric tons), according to the study.

In what looks like a pristine, remote mountain region, tiny pieces of plastic pollution were found raining down from the sky—raising questions about the global extent of plastic pollution—a ...