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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...