The final round of United Nations-brokered talks aimed at tackling plastic pollution are opening in South Korea with deep ...

By Valerie Volcovici and Joyce Lee BUSAN/BAKU (Reuters) -As delegates from 175 countries gathered in Busan, South Korea on ...

The study indicated that folding laundry made from synthetic fabrics could lead to seven pieces of microplastic being inhaled ...

Plastic production will jump about 60 per cent to 736 million tonnes a year by 2040, according to the Organization for ...

Microplastics are not a new problem. But scientists are just beginning to understand their behavior and properties. By ...

Plastics are ubiquitous in modern economies, yet they come with a high environmental cost. As the UN debates how to manage ...

Derived from organic, renewable sources — such as corn, seaweed, or sugarcane — so-called bioplastics have, their proponents ...

Central Park Elementary School fourth- and fifth-graders' passion for combating ocean pollution is matched by their ...

Microplastics are everywhere—in our food, our water and even the air. Scientists and engineers around the world have developed all sorts of creative strategies to attempt to filter our these tiny ...

One frustrated teacher posted about the appalling excess packaging they got when ordering 100 buzzers from AliExpress.

To turn sea trash into treasure, Arimoto starts by rinsing the plastic in fresh water and then sorting it by colour.

Researchers revealed that people are breathing in small particles of plastic without even knowing about it.Research ...