In a report published in Marine Pollution Bulletin, researchers from Kyushu University have for the first time, provided a clear numerical target for global efforts to tackle marine plastic ...

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

how plastic travels through food webs – and eventually reaches us. “It is now clear that the world cannot recycle its way out of the plastic pollution crisis,” according to the Lancet report.

Founders of Resynergi, a plastics recycling startup, say they've developed a proprietary method for breaking the strong ...

A research project based at Heidelberg University and Heidelberg University Hospital targets plastic particles and climate change as driving factors for the spread of antimicrobial resistance (AMR ...

New draft of global plastic pollution treaty would not limit plastic production The biggest issue of the talks has been whether the treaty should impose caps on producing new plastic or focus ...

Ahead of the expected finalization of a UN global plastics treaty, a group of international experts calls for a greater focus on health impacts when considering plastic pollution. The Health ...

The researchers created this machine learning model in response to ongoing negotiation of the United Nations Environment Programme treaty to end plastic pollution.

Three waxworms model for the photo shoot on plastic consumed by them. (Harald Grove/Brandon University) (CN) — Each year, 100 million tons of polyethylene plastic are produced globally, and in the ...

Countries were to start the clock Tuesday on 10 days of talks aimed at hammering out a landmark global treaty on combating the scourge of plastic pollution.

The world dumps 2,000 truckloads of plastic into the ocean each day. Here’s where a lot of it ends up Photographs and video by Edu Ponces/RUIDO Photo Story by Angela Dewan, CNN Published April ...