Experts say that many unknowns remain. Scientists make frightening finding after analyzing droppings from variety of wild ...

No country receives more discarded plastic from wealthy countries, but shipments from the United States are no longer welcome ...

Great Lakes have long faced pollution threats. The latest might be the most insidious. What happens to the different types of plastic in the environment?

Different types of plastic have varying toxic properties. Some are made with toxic chemicals like chlorine, while others pick up trace amounts of chemicals like lead found in the environment.

As a researcher with the Department of Fisheries Malaysia studying marine plastic pollution, I spend my days documenting a ...

Researchers find that nationwide policies to ban plastic bags may be paying off, with fewer showing up during coastal ...

A new study from the University of Delaware and Columbia University looked at plastic bag bans and fees in jurisdictions across the United States to gauge their effectiveness. The researchers found ...

Scientists have discovered that a strain of common faecal bacteria can convert plastic waste into the drug paracetamol, a ...

A new study from the University of Delaware and Columbia University shows plastic bag bans and fees have been effective at ...

Wine surprisingly contains few microplastics – even glass bottles with caps. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at ...

A single pellet of recycled plastic can contain over 80 different chemicals. A new study by researchers from the University ...

The country is poised to introduce a series of regulations that will make companies that produce and use plastic packaging ...