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 ...

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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

Plastic waste has long been viewed as one of the world's most persistent environmental challenges. Yet researchers have now ...

Peninsula Precious Plastics co-founders Andrea and David Schick hold some clipboards that were created using upcycled plastic at the nonprofit’s warehouse in San Carlos on Feb. 20, 2026. Photo by ...

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

AKTI study and research centre president Xenia Loizides called for targeted measures to tackle plastic pollution along the ...