Despite having over 5,000 plastic-producing industries, Bangladesh has fewer than 300 mostly informal recycling plants, leaving it ill-equipped to handle the 400 tons of daily plastic waste, including ...

California received the highest score and Mississippi the worst in a new nationwide ranking of state laws designed to reduce ...

A report assessing state policies on plastics comes just weeks before negotiators meet to attempt to finalize a global treaty ...

Members of the general public will have a chance to weigh in on the use of paper versus plastic straws as the federal government considers a new rule on the types of straws used by government ...

A new study finds there are 27 million metric tons of invisible plastic particles in the North Atlantic alone.

As the world converges in Geneva from August 5 to 14 for the resumed fifth session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating ...

Ocean Conservancy has released a report titled “United States of Plastics.” It offers ratings for all 50 states.

Nanoplastics—particles smaller than a human hair—can pass through cell walls and enter the food web. New research suggests 27 ...

MANILA, Philippines – Negotiators from around the world will come together this August in Geneva, Switzerland, in hopes of finally hammering out a landmark agreement on how to beat the plastic crisis.

Plastic pollution tends to float near the surface and build up in large, rotating ocean currents known as gyres. The ...

The world produces over 100 million tons of plastic a year, which could take hundreds of years to fully degrade, but ...

When Tiwonge Mzumara-Gawa was a child, her mother sent her to market with a basket woven from grasses. “But now we don’t do ...