No country receives more discarded plastic from wealthy countries, but shipments from the United States are no longer welcome ...

Scientists have developed a new method to identify and map plastic waste in urban areas using satellite imagery, offering new hope for tracking pollution and improving waste management in cities ...

The pioneering 2015 study of marine plastic didn’t include illegal dumping and export of plastic waste. In the new analysis, the team considered those actions, but only for the U.S.

A Holly Springs teen’s startup turns recycled bottles into swimwear and removes a pound of ocean plastic for every sale.

CartridgesDirect was able to save over 50,000 used printer cartridges from going directly to Australian landfills.

Plastic pollution in the world's oceans has received much attention, but there has been increasing concern about the high concns. of plastic debris in the Laurentian Great Lakes. Using census data and ...

Hundreds of people took to the streets in the freezing dusk of Chile's capital on Saturday to watch a performance calling for greater protection of the world's oceans.

It’s been more than a decade since California enacted a soft ban on single-use plastic bags at grocery stores and other ...

This diffusion‑limited regime likely dominates for fluffier aggregates made of phytoplankton remains, fecal pellets, or ...

Exposure to microplastic pollution might raise the risk of diabetes, heart disease, and stroke, according to a new study.

Plastic debris is now a troubling reality in oceans and along shorelines worldwide. From tiny microplastics to large waste ...