Plastic is everywhere in modern society. While it has paved the way for enormous progress, the pollution it leaves behind is ...

Plastic pollution is not just in oceans and soil. Scientists have now found enormous amounts of microscopic plastic floating ...

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A pollution incident where millions of plastic pellets were washed up along the Sussex and Kent coast has been upgraded, ...

New research points to an unexpected way plastic pollution may be influencing Earth’s climate system. A recent study suggests ...

Four years after Germany phased out light plastic bags, how has the EU addressed plastic waste? And why do single-use items ...

“During their long journey to Ogasawara Islands, the green turtles are likely to ingest and accumulate plastic distributed ...

A technology using bubbles —to clean up plastic pollution in waterways could be making its United States debut at the Grand ...

Chemists design biodegradable plastics inspired by nature, programming polymers to stay durable in use and break down safely ...

Researchers examined the diet and plastic ingestion of green sea turtles inhabiting waters around the Ogasawara Islands, ...

Plastic pollution does more than litter landscapes and oceans. According to a new perspective article published in ...

Researchers create supercapacitors from waste PET plastic bottles that could power electric vehicles and electronics within 5 ...