Part 2 of Part 3 Series 4. Why is plastic pollution such a problem? There are three big reasons. First, plastic pollution can ...

Greenwashing in the food industry misleads consumers and undermines real sustainability efforts. A ScienceDirect study ...

Pakistan will hold a high-level conference, 'Be­yond the Plastic Waste,' on June 3 to mark World Environment Day, focusing on solutions to the country's growing plastic pollution crisis. Or­ganized by ...

Plastic makers promote advanced recycling, but the reality reveals technical, financial, and environmental limitations.

Plastic companies are using a convoluted accounting system to make it seem that their products have more recycled content ...

Researchers from the University of Toronto used GPS-tracked drifters to show that wind is the dominant force driving plastic ...

Some 460 million metric tons of plastic are produced globally each year, out of which a staggering 91% of plastic waste is ...

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

According to the Zero Waste Himalaya Alliance ... The Himalayan Cleanup (THC), one of the biggest movements against plastic pollution in the Indian Himalayan region, since 2018.

Researchers have developed a cost-effective method to convert post-consumer plastic waste into high-performance ...

Since January 2024, the department has been working with 250 commercial trawlers to install onboard waste bins, enabling crews to bring their garbage back to shore rather than discarding it at sea ...

An Australian study used pyrolysis coupled to gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (Pyr-GC–MS) to analyze the presence of ...