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 ...

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.

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

Indian researchers have discovered microplastics in Adelie penguins from Antarctica's Svenner Islands. The study, conducted ...

A final round of UN negotiations on a legally binding international agreement to curb plastic pollution kick offs in Busan, ...

Ahead of urgent United Nations talks on reducing plastic pollution, new research holds a workout on a synthetic carpet could ...