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 ...

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

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

A global instrument to combat plastic waste is only the start. Coordinated action, innovative financing and consistent ...

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 ...

As a researcher with the Department of Fisheries Malaysia studying marine plastic pollution, I spend my days documenting a ...

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

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.