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

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

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

When the researchers followed up nearly three years later, they found that the patients with the microplastics were significantly more likely to have suffered a stroke, a heart attack, or death from ...

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.

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Plastic pollution has become a major crisis, with nearly 400 million tons produced globally yearly. A lot of this is for ...

The sustainable style influencer Moyo (@_theconnoisseur) shared a video where she visited H&M's website to check out some listings, explaining that she always looks at labels before buying. But, "lo ...

Along with orange peels and eggshells, people are tossing cling wrap, foam trays and other plastic food packaging into their ...

Journals this month looked at “fabulous but forgotten” ecosystems, hungry monkeys, lead-poisoned birds, and more — including a focus on microplastics.

Have scientists solved the plastic pollution crisis? A team has created a plastic that's as strong as conventional materials but dissolves completely in seawater.