A plastic bottle tossed into a recycling bin could one day help power an electric vehicle, smartphone or renewable energy ...

It has always perplexed me that single-use plastic constitutes about 40% of global plastic production, yet conversations ...

Companies are stepping up efforts to cut waste from flexible plastic packaging as new environmental rules target one of the ...

Plastic recycling was sold as the answer, but new data suggests the system may be failing far more waste than expected.

Hawaii researchers are giving old fishing nets and recycled plastic a second life by mixing them into asphalt roads. Early ...

As global concern over plastic pollution intensifies, a growing share of the problem is tied not to where waste is discarded, ...

Coral reefs, already under pressure from warming oceans, are increasingly also suffocated by pollution. For Kenya, a country ...

The lawsuit argues that California’s recently finalized regulations that will gradually require companies to scale back ...

Most of us grew up sorting our trash with the quiet confidence that the plastic we set out on the curb would find a second ...

Today, more than half of plastic waste ends up in landfills, and less than one-tenth is recycled globally. The U.S. generates ...

Despite repeated setbacks in the General Assembly, momentum for plastics producer accountability is building in North Carolina.

The Manufacturers Association of Nigeria has stated that plastic pollution is fundamentally a waste management challenge, adding that the problem lies not ...