Microplastics are turning up in oceans, soil, drinking water, and human tissue. Learn where they come from, why they matter, ...

With 400 million tons of plastic produced annually, landfills are overflowing. Oceans are choking on microplastics. And global plastic production is on pace to triple by 2060. But a new wave of ...

Leaders from around the world have gathered in Busan, South Korea this week in hopes of finally striking a global treaty to reduce the world’s growing level of plastic pollution. Negotiations began ...

Up to 904 million pounds of the waste was illegally dumped in the U.S. The United States produced more plastic waste than any other country in the world in 2016 -- about 92.6 billion pounds, ...

Scientists from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory are winners of the 2024 Gizmodo Science Fair for creating a plastic that can be infinitely recycled. Can you design a new type of plastic that ...

These costs for plastic produced in 2040 will rise to US$7.1 trillion unless urgent action is taken The lifetime cost to society, the environment and the economy of plastic produced in 2019 alone has ...

This article was created in partnership with the National Geographic Society. In December 2018, Great Britain's Royal Statistical Society named the core fact in this story—that only about nine percent ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Oil and chemical companies who created a high-profile alliance to end plastic ...

This is viewer supported news. Please do your part today. Judith, can you take us through your kitchen and tell us what you did, since you’re so concerned about plastic? JUDITH ENCK: Sure. The kitchen ...

When Amy Lusher moved in with her partner, one of the first things she did was get rid of all the plastic kitchenware in their household and replace it with items made of glass, wood and stainless ...