plastic pollution

Plastic production is expected to triple by 2026 and experts have predicted plastic in oceans could outweigh fish by 2050.

Our world is getting polluted with plastics on a planetary scale. We can’t see much of it, but ...

Supermarket giants Coles, Woolworths, and ALDI will form a task force to address the suspension of a soft ...

Investors are pouring billions into the bioplastics industry, foreseeing a massive business opportunity in a sector at a ...

Commentary Eco-warriors neither slumber nor sleep in their pursuit of universal sustainability. Plastic looms large on their enemies ...

New research by Australia's Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) has revealed that plastic pollution on Australia's ...

A world-first citizen science project has revealed the beaches with the highest levels of plastics in Australia, after ...

When Jeff Gold founded Nexus Fuels (now Nexus Circular) in 2018, he was no greenhorn in environmental services—he ...

Most young turtles caught off the coast of Queensland have ingested plastics, new research shows. Around 83 per ...

LONDON—British supermarket group Asda is to extend its trial of a refill scheme that allows shoppers to replenish ...

A supermarket in Thailand has replaced its plastic packaging with banana leaf wrapping. Banana leaves have been traditionally used in ...

Amidst the plastic waste that is harming the marine ecosystem and its inhabitants, one brewery in Florida is ...

The South Pacific Ocean nation of Vanuatu has banned unrecyclable plastic bags and polystyrene takeaway boxes in a ...

There's a potential solution for ocean pollution.

For years, fish have been feeding on tiny pieces of plastic in the ocean, mistaking them for food. ...

Picture a mushroom and you probably imagine the familiar cap and stem shape that grows above ground. However, ...

NEW YORK—The waterways surrounding New York City are a soup of plastic, ranging from discarded takeout containers down ...

How much are whiter teeth and smoother skin worth to you? Are they worth the water and fish ...

Boobies, like albatrosses, can be forgiven for feeding plastic to their chicks, because they think it’s just another ...

New research shows humans send between 4.8 and 12.7 million tons of plastics into the world’s oceans every ...

5.25 trillion — that's a conservative estimate of just how many pieces of plastic are swirling around the ...

The next phase of Los Angeles’ plastic bag ban started July 1.

Ghost nets are abandoned fishing gear that become a trap to large marine life. Hundreds of thousands of  ...

Bureo is an innovative skateboard company making decks from recycled drift nets off the coast of Chile. Find ...