Plastic waste has let common coots reuse nests year after year. Scientists have now used the trash layers to date how old nests are.

The sight of a whale washed ashore with a stomach full of plastic is a poignant reminder of the urgent need for change. Despite the potential for recycling, only about 9% of plastic waste is ...

China stopped taking our plastic waste. Now we're drowning in it ... most couldn't operate at full capacity, and only two of the plants sold the crude oil to be used exclusively for plastic ...

Plastic waste is increasingly causing problems for fishers. Fishnets bring up bottles, propellers get tangled in bags, water ...

A waste pickers at the Gioto dump site in ... there exists more than one ton of discarded plastic either on land or in the sea. “In just the minute it took you to read this paragraph, another ...

Countries negotiating a global treaty to curb plastic pollution failed to reach agreement despite a pledge to do so by the year-end. The issue of plastic pollution on land and at sea needs to be ...