Plastic waste is no longer just an eyesore floating on the surface of rivers and seas. A growing body of research now shows ...

Plastic pollution may be quietly fueling algal blooms by knocking out the grazers that usually keep algae under control.

On a Philippines beach, barefoot children jumped and played on shoals of plastic washed ashore in previous typhoons. Much of the world’s plastic garbage winds up in rivers that eventually carry it ...

Plastics make up the majority of litter across the country. In the absence of regulation, the public are taking matters into their own hands ...

Climate change conditions turn plastics into more mobile, persistent, and hazardous pollutants. This is done by speeding up plastic breakdown into microplastics—microscopic fragments of ...

An estimated 52 million metric tons of plastic is spilling uncontrolled into the environment every year, according to a new study (Nature 2024, DOI: 10.1038/s41586-024-07758-6). By weight, 43% of this ...

New York must pass the Packaging Reduction and Recycling Infrastructure Act. Plastic pollution is impacting our environment and health. Microplastics and toxic chemicals used in plastic production are ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. The world creates 57 million tons of plastic ...

Researchers estimate that 52% of sea turtles worldwide have eaten plastic waste, writes JP Bryan. Plastic can injure or kill turtles by obstructing their gut or by exposing them to toxic chemicals ...

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