New research on microplastics in brains reminds us that while scientists compile safety data, our leaders should still act ...

Tired of all the dire political news? How about some dire medical news instead - scientists just discovered your brain is a landfill for tiny plastic particles - with concentrations up to 30 times ...

Global Production Every year, the world produces a staggering 400 million tons of plastic. This sheer volume of production is ...

How many pots is that? Nearly 242 million. Wow! Historically, more plants were sold as bare-root, ball and burlap, or in ...

You may have seen images of seabirds that have built their nests on discarded nets, lengths of rope and other plastic litter, ...

Most plastic products, by contrast, can be reprocessed only once — if at all — by turning them into lower quality products that are eventually destined for the trash bin. Although such ...

Volunteers here have an almost full-time job scooping up the corpses ... the huge dump of plastic trash sitting on the runway awaiting collection by boats is evidence of that.