Plastic pollution is everywhere—including where you would least expect it, especially when it's in tiny particle form. Today, ...

Exclusive: Some scientists say many detections are most likely error, with one high-profile study called a ‘joke’ ...

Plastic production release hazardous chemicals and pollutants harmful to workers and communities. Plastic pollution poses a significant, under-recognised threat to human and planetary health ...

A team of researchers has demonstrated a cutting-edge plant-based plastic bag that can dissolve in water without producing ...

Negotiations toward a global, legally binding plastics treaty are set to resume this summer, with the United Nations Environment Program announcing that the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee on ...

Domestic plastic burning is prevalent in cities around the world, fuelled by poor waste management, survey finds.

Former EPA official Judith Enck explains why plastic pollution is a production problem—and how policy, not recycling, can ...

Plastic microparticles are finding their way into our drinking water. We already knew tiny pieces of plastic find their way into seawater where they can be eaten by marine animals and so end up in ...

The problem of maritime plastic-waste pollution first became apparent in the 1970s. In the half-century since then, the problem has become ever more widespread, as scientific expeditions conducted by ...

For more than two decades, plastic waste carried from urban areas has quietly accumulated along the Dead Sea’s shrinking coastline, forming a striking visual and environmental record at the lowest ...