Scientists have detected microplastics — the tiny and pervasive fragments now found in our seas, drinking water, food and, increasingly, living tissue — in human semen and follicular ...

Plastic waste is a growing issue worldwide. According to United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) a truck load of plastic waste enters the ocean every minute we spend on this planet. ..

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

Polar adventurer Alan Chambers has teamed up with climate scientists to see if microplastics and nanoplastics have reached ...

Ghana’s own Buz Stop Boyz, a group of young environmental volunteers has been awarded the Sanitation Impact Award ...

This discovery offers a two-for-one solution. Researchers make game-changing breakthrough using common plastic waste — here's ...

China may be the world’s largest manufacturer of plastic, the report finds, but the United States is by far the world’s largest generator of plastic waste—it produced about 42 million metric ...

The Asian Development Bank advocates for a circular economy in Asia and the Pacific to combat environmental degradation, ...

Feces from a variety of wild animals help illustrate how widespread microplastics have become in the Swiss wilderness.

The new rules, scheduled to take effect July 1, will allow only approved plastic scrap imports from countries that are Basel ...

As jockeying around the plastics treaty heats up ahead of August negotiations, global consumer brands are making the economic ...

Please join the SE Iowa Sierra Club, TerraCycle and the Sustainable Living Coalition, along with and an estimated 100 million ...