The UN's environment chief insists that a landmark global treaty tackling plastic pollution remains achievable, despite talks ...

Our new study set out to understand what happens to large pieces of floating plastic once they enter the ocean. We developed ...

Plastic production has sharply increased over the last 70 years. In 1950, the world produced just two million tonnes,” according to the website Our World in Data. That figure grew to over 450 million ...

Plastic pollution is a major threat to human survival, with more than six hundred thousand tons of plastics on Earth. 2 In an effort to reduce the concentration of conventional plastics, scientists ...

From right, Anthony Agotha, special envoy for Climate and Environment Diplomacy, European Union, Juan Carlos Monterrey, head of Panama's delegation, Olga Givernet, French Delegate Minister for Energy, ...

Note: Eastman Chemical Company’s first “molecular recycling” facility is now fully operational in Kingsport. It uses a process called methanolysis to reduce hard-to-recycle waste plastic to its ...

Scientists from the Department of Geography and Environmental Science at Queen Mary University of London have developed a ...

Plastics play an enormous and growing role in our world, but one Weber State University student is finding ways to keep them ...

Three German plastics associations told journalists on the eve of the K 2025 show that the plastics treaty could set global ...

Chemicals leaching from plastics are leaving Americans notably sicker and poorer, according to a new study. In 2018 alone, the hormone-disrupting effects of plastics in the nation’s food and water led ...