Malaysia emerged as a major destination for U.S. waste after China banned American waste imports in 2018. California shipped ...

The Easter Island is known and famous throughout the world for its millennia-old humanoid sculptures..but it is not just famous for that,---plastic pollution is the biggest problem in this remote ...

Plastic waste is being transformed into something extraordinary on Lake Kivu. Activists in the DRC are creating "Tilatopia," a unique hotel and awareness center built from recycled bottles.

HANGA ROA, Easter Island, Oct 16 (Reuters) - Easter Island, the tiny remote speck of land in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, is stuck in an oceanic vortex of plastic. According to municipal data ...

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.

With genetic tweaks, E. coli turned 92 percent of broken-down plastic into acetaminophen, charting a path to upcycle plastic waste sustainably.

In an epic first for the world’s oceans (and humanity in general) the small Greek island of Tilos has gone zero-waste thanks to the help of a company called Polygreen and, of course, all of the ...

Rhode Island legislators introduced three bills to address plastic bottle waste, including a "bottle bill" and an "extended producer responsibility" program. The bottle bill would implement a 10 ...

The global campaign to gain control of plastic waste is one of the fastest-growing environmental causes ever mounted. Yet it hasn’t been enough to make a dent in the growing tonnage of discarded ...

Much plastic waste produced is single-use or packaging. Due to the difficulty of recycling plastic, less than 6% is recycled. The rest is landfilled, incinerated, or in our environment.

HANGA ROA, Easter Island (Reuters) - Easter Island, the tiny remote speck of land in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, is stuck in an oceanic vortex of plastic. According to municipal data from ...

Easter Island, the tiny remote speck of land in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, is stuck in an oceanic vortex of plastic. According to municipal data from Rapa Nui, the island's local name, it ...