No country receives more discarded plastic from wealthy countries, but shipments from the United States are no longer welcome ...

Plastic bag policies led to a 25% to 47% reduction in the amount of disposable, thin plastic bag litter on America's ...

The Colorado-based nonprofit has partnered with rePurpose Global to remove 250,000 pounds of plastic for Plastic Free July.

The team ran experiments offering people who returned bottles the option of getting a typical ten-cent payout—or the small ...

Here's a rather novel way to keep trash out of landfills: engineering biologists at the University of Edinburgh have ...

Hundreds of people took to the streets in the freezing dusk of Chile's capital on Saturday to watch a performance calling for greater protection of the world's oceans.

Feces from a variety of wild animals help illustrate how widespread microplastics have become in the Swiss wilderness.

Researchers systematically mapped the evidence on micro-, meso-, and nanoplastics migrating from plastic food-contact ...

Recycled plastic pellets can release a hidden mix of over 80 chemicals into water, disrupting hormones and fat metabolism in ...

For many people, "plastic pollution" calls to mind pictures of turtles and other marine life drowning in single-use plastic bottles and discarded fishing nets. My own research looks at how the ...

The U.S. Virgin Islands government says it's facing a "dire" plastic waste problem, in part due to pollution from Pepsi and Coca-Cola products.

Nanoplastics are plastic fragments that are smaller than 100 nanometres. “Imagine that every day you drink one and a half litres of water,” says Sarkar. “If you drink from a new bottle every day, you ...