With tailored, evidence-based policies, the U.S. can relieve the burden on local and municipal governments, communities, and ...

The Lancet: Plastic pollution is an underrecognised threat to health, experts warn as they launch a project to track plastics’ health impacts and monitor progress Ahead of the expected finalisation of ...

The development hasn’t been straightforward. Early versions of the algorithm struggled with shadows and confused driftwood ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Within 15 years, a garbage truck’s worth of plastic could be entering our environment every second. Not every ...

A study published today in the weekly journal Science projects that at present rates the world's plastic waste will nearly double by 2050, imperiling waterways and seas already under threat. But ...

As United Nations members negotiate a new treaty to end plastic pollution, they must balance top-down efforts to curb production with support for on-the-ground initiatives that remove and recycle ...

A new study shines a light on the enormous scale of uncollected rubbish and open burning of plastic waste in the first ever global plastics pollution inventory. Researchers used A.I. to model waste ...

World leaders are in Ottawa negotiating a treaty to end plastic pollution. The US, a major plastic exporter, says its a dealmaker but is under pressure to be more ambitious. Plastic production is on ...

The surging tide of microplastics is already an environmental and health threat, but as the world heats up — driving increasingly extreme weather — it’s transforming them into “more mobile, persistent ...

Bangladesh generates around 87,000 tons of single-use plastics annually, of which 96% are directly discarded as garbage. Due to lack of awareness, many people dump plastic waste at convenience, which ...