Plastic is a product that is ubiquitous in today's society, says Sarah Morath, Wake Forest professor of law and author of the ...

Boylan Slat, founder of The Ocean Cleanup, said 1% of the world’s rivers are responsible for about 80% of ocean pollution.

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AS consumers, we hold things that can potentially destroy the future of the younger generation, unless properly disposed. It ...

Inger Andersen, Chief of UNEP, urges ministers to push for a strong, legally binding treaty to end plastic pollution by INC-5 ...

Forests are essential to life as we know it. They play a vital role as carbon sinks and climate regulators, they are habitats ...

Plastic pollution is impacting our environment and ... autoimmune disorders and endocrine disruption. Much plastic waste produced is single-use or packaging. Due to the difficulty of recycling ...

This story was originally published by Grist with the headline This commonly used plastic chemical caused 350,000 heart ...

Environmental advocates are hoping to get the legislation meant to reduce single-use plastics over the finish line after ...

Like many developing countries, Ghana generates vast amounts of plastic waste—over one million tonnes annually—though local ...

Plastic pollution along selected Australian coastlines has dropped by 39 percent in a decade, according to research by CSIRO, ...

Plastic Odyssey, a 40-metre floating lab, is on a global mission to combat plastic pollution by recycling waste into valuable ...