"It is providing a solution." Officials launch innovative partnership to solve major problem with common waste: 'I'm very ...

This Thursday marks World Environment Day, an annual awareness day born out of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). It’s the largest global platform for environmental outreach, and this ...

Discover which countries are responsible for the most plastic waste that ends up on beaches and coasts around the world Take a walk along any beach in the world and you’re likely to find some sort of ...

Around 1.5 billion people around the world do not have access to garbage collection services, and how they dispose of their plastic waste has become a serious environmental problem. Most of these ...

The rapid accumulation of plastic waste is currently posing significant risks for both human health and the environment on ...

And of the 10 highest ocean plastic polluters, six countries accounting for more than 50 per cent of global plastic waste are ...

Amid a summer of historic headlines, the Biden-Harris administration quietly took consequential action last month that will benefit the health of all Americans for generations to come. The federal ...

In a remarkable show of creativity and courage, an 11-year-old girl from Puducherry chose the ocean as her stage to highlight ...

Sahadat Hossain, a civil engineering professor at the University of Texas at Arlington, shows a sample of recycled plastic in asphalt and a bag of recycled plastic used to make the asphalt, May 1, ...

National Cotton Council initiative promotes natural fiber over synthetic materials to reduce microplastic health risks.

Once upon a time, before marijuana became legal (or partly legal) in most of the U.S., the only plastic involved with a pot transaction might have been a small baggie and a disposable lighter. (Or, ...

An environmental activist in Ghana has built a Christmas tree entirely from discarded plastic bottles, using the festive symbol to draw attention to the country’s growing plastic waste problem.