A 2016 report by the Ellen MacArthur Foundation claimed that by 2050 there would be 850 tons of plastic in the oceans and ...

Scientific studies on nine major waterways reveal an 'alarming' pollution by small particles. For the first time, a bacterium ...

In 2004 the region was already running out of land to safely dump ... who trucks the waste to recycling plants on the outskirts of Manila. Trucks full of plastic bottles pull into a recycling ...

From composting food waste to transforming landfills into green parks, these rural communities are proving that true ...

In a basement laboratory at the University of New Mexico, Marcus Garcia rummaged through a bin full of plastic waste. He picked past bottles, chunks of fishing net, a toothbrush, a cup with a ...

With the Islamic month of Ramadan now over, a familiar sight has returned to the streets of daytime Jakarta: street vendors ...

A CSIRO study has found 39% less plastic pollution in and around Australian coastal cities over ten years. It also found more ...

A new study in Peru and Ecuador has found that artisanal fishers are losing revenue due to prolific plastic pollution ... that most of the waste generated on land ends up in the sea.

The amount of plastic being recycled around the world is stagnant at less than 10% with most new plastic still made from ...

Smart policies and innovation—not bans—can reduce waste and build a circular plastics economy that maximizes the value of ...