Microplastics seem to be everywhere – in the air we breathe, the water we drink, the food we eat. They have turned up in ...

There is no shortage of news about plastic’s ubiquity or its harms. Microplastics are in clouds, drinking water, playgrounds and our blood. Marine mammals are entangled in and ingest plastic at ...

The statistics around plastic recycling are absolutely devastating. In 2024, only 9% of plastic waste was recycled globally, while 91% of plastic waste is believed to not be recycled. Even worse, the ...

Sahadat Hossain, a civil engineering professor at the University of Texas at Arlington, shows a sample of recycled plastic in asphalt and a bag of recycled plastic used to make the asphalt, May 1, ...

I was a junior in high school when the first World Environment Day (WED) was celebrated in 1972. Marked annually on June 5, it was established by the United Nations General Assembly and over the past ...

Scientists at the plastic technology center AIMPLAS are working hard to decrease our reliance on plastic. The team is "addressing this issue through innovative technologies such as physicochemical ...

Plastic in and of itself is not the problem — creating value for it is key to ensuring it doesn’t just get thrown “away.” Here are just a few of the innovations eliminating the idea of [plastic] waste ...

Plastic pollution is a growing problem that's impacting ecosystems globally. The presence of so much plastic has also caused microplastics — plastic particles no more than one-fifth of an inch large — ...

With millions of tons of plastic covering the seafloor, and more added every year, plastic pollution in the oceans is a major problem. With this amount of waste, we are ruining Earth's oceans and ...

It boggles the mind to know we humans are literally made of stardust. Nearly all the elements in our bodies come from the stuff produced as stars exploded over the last 13 billion years. It boggles ...

To the editor: Atty. Gen. Rob Bonta’s lawsuit against plastic bag manufacturers is, no doubt, important (“Plastic bags sold in California stores aren’t actually recyclable, Bonta says,” Oct. 17).