By Max Martin As shiny, pearl-like white plastic pellets rode wave after wave and piled up on the beaches of ...

Countries are currently negotiating a global treaty to end plastic pollution and make plastics safer and more sustainable.

Plastic pollution tends to float near the surface and build up in large, rotating ocean currents known as gyres. The ...

The world produces over 100 million tons of plastic a year, which could take hundreds of years to fully degrade, but ...

A chemical commonly found in sunscreen could be making plastic in oceans even harder to break down, according to University ...

No country receives more discarded plastic from wealthy countries, but shipments from the United States are no longer welcome ...

Amid a global plastic-pollution crisis, artist Erik Jon Olson turns his own plastic waste into quilted works of art in which ...

Every minute, a rubbish lorry's worth of plastic enters the ocean. As World Ocean Day 2025 highlights, stemming the plastic ...

Kenya generates about 983,000 tonnes of plastic waste annually. According to the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) with only 27% collected.

An ongoing campaign in Dar es Salaam, led by the Forum on Climate Change (FORUMCC) in collaboration with various ...

Oregon launches the Plastic Pollution and Recycling Modernization Act, enhancing recycling services statewide.

There are few excuses left for polluting our environment with plastics – and the UK can lead the charge towards a more ...