Plastic waste is increasingly causing problems for fishers. Fishnets bring up bottles, propellers get tangled in bags, water ...

All bags are not created equal when it comes to the environment. And paper might not be as green as you think.

Rashedul and I watch as they start tearing out handfuls of invasive water hyacinth and filling sacks with discarded plastic ...

The environmental costs of plastic pollution are not borne by ... Cotton and paper bags are also the worst when it comes to creating “eutrophication” – runoff of nitrogen into water that can lead to ...

We don’t want plastic in the ocean. Most plastic degrades slowly and we have all seen pictures and videos of marine life ...

The National Environment Management Council (NEMC) has acknowledged that enforcing Tanzania’s plastic bag ban remains a ...

More than 25 major consumer brands and petrochemicals have been traced to fracking in the Permian Basin, one of the world’s ...

With an estimated cumulative mass of 8.3 billion tonnes, global plastic production has surpassed that of the preceding 50 years since 2004. The majority of this plastic is drawn from crude oil and ...

To address plastic pollution in water bodies and clogging of water causing urban flooding and ecological degradation, Professor & Head of the Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering at ...

with products like water bottles, plastic bags and clothing fibers acknowledged as major contributors to plastic pollution—but research by University of Toronto environmental scientists shows ...