Plastic waste is shifting from environmental burden to a strategic resource as advanced materials turn industrial waste into ...

Since plastic began to be mass-produced in the 1950s, the material has been building up in the environment and in people’s bodies. These five graphs illustrate just how bad the problem has gotten, and ...

Mangroves protect coasts and wildlife, but plastic waste now builds up inside roots, harming ecosystems and communities.

Researchers document widespread plastic burning in homes worldwide, driven by energy poverty, poor waste services, and limited fuel options.

The global plastic crisis has long been a ticking time bomb, but now, it seems, a revolution is underway. One company, Corsair Group International, is rewriting the narrative of waste management with ...

Across many urban neighborhoods in the Global South, plastic waste is being used not just as something to throw away but as a ...

Up to 904 million pounds of the waste was illegally dumped in the U.S. The United States produced more plastic waste than any other country in the world in 2016 -- about 92.6 billion pounds, ...

Marine scientists estimate that, on average, every minute the equivalent of a garbage truck full of plastic waste enters the world's oceans, where it harms ocean wildlife and threatens entire ...

Around the world, an estimated 20 million people make a living by collecting discarded plastic, aluminum, and other refuse from dumpsites and landfills and selling it to recyclers. They’re called ...

HARDLY seen by the Filipino masses in their daily lives is the continuing threat of microplastics and plastics, with a ...