Community-led research from UCSB’s Benioff Ocean Science Laboratory spans three years, four continents and eight countries to reveal the scale of river plastic waste and offer solutions to stop it at ...

The world is drowning in plastic. Each year, an estimated 11 million metric tonnes of plastic waste enters our oceans — a figure expected to triple by 2040. Rivers act as plastic conveyor belts, ...

A large pile of plastic bottles and cans collected on a street corner in downtown Manhattan, New York. Credit - Hulton Archive/Epics—Getty Images Throwing your plastic bottles in the recycling bin may ...

PLASTIC Bank is a social fintech with a global plastic bottle deposit program that helps end poverty and stop plastic pollution. Every bottle collected prevents plastic waste from polluting the oceans ...

People walking the streets of downtown Petaluma, California, started seeing something new on the sidewalks in summer. Alongside the usual trash cans and recycling containers were large purple bins ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A ban on the sale of single-use plastic bottles at all city-owned properties is set for an upcoming Honolulu City Council vote. If ...

For years, we've been grabbing plastic water bottles at the store, partly for convenience and partly because we think it's a healthy thing to do. Think again. That plastic water bottle isn't just bad ...

On November 21, 2024, the EPA issued its final National Strategy to Prevent Plastic Pollution, as required by the Save Our Seas 2.0 Act. This comes after the Agency received almost 92,000 comments on ...

Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ve probably picked up on a growing anxiety around plastic pollution. What does all this plastic pollution mean for the health of people and the planet? And ...

Women collect important items from Nairobi River that passes through the Korogocho slum area. [Stafford Ondego, Standard] Kenya produces between 0.5 million and 1.3 million tonnes of plastic waste ...

Rivers carry plastic across continents, so scientists tracked its movement across continents too. A sweeping new UC Santa Barbara-led study spanning four continents and eight countries has amassed one ...

A large pile of plastic bottles and cans collected on a street corner in downtown Manhattan, New York. A large pile of plastic bottles and cans collected on a street corner in downtown Manhattan, New ...