Scientists said Wednesday they have come up with an environmentally friendly method that uses artificial sunlight to transform plastic into power-generating chemicals, as countries worldwide battle to reduce waste.
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Seeking stricter accountability for the plastics industry, more than 350 public interest groups filed a petition Tuesday with the Environmental Protect Agency demanding higher standards and lower emissions for plastics manufacturers.
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Scientists have developed a process to convert carbon waste into an important precursor widely used to make plastic products – a breakthrough they say will likely cause a paradigm shift in fossil fuel use, according to a study published Wednesday.
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Fast food giant McDonald’s is speeding up its move to minimize the use of plastic in its restaurants in Europe, where legislation on single-use items is becoming increasingly restrictive.
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Midway Atoll is a haven for many species of seabirds and home to the largest colony of albatross in the world. It is littered with bird skeletons with plastic protruding from their decomposing bellies.
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EU countries need to adopt policies to boost recycling, to help tackle growing waste, particularly from plastic and electronics, according to two reports by the European Environment Agency published Monday.
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A young Dutch inventor is widening his effort to clean up floating plastic from the Pacific Ocean by moving into rivers, too, using a new floating device to catch garbage before it reaches the seas.
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Tens of thousands of pieces of plastic littering the planet come from just a handful of multinational corporations, and Coca-Cola leads the pack, an environmental group said Wednesday.
Read moreNearly every day for four years, members of a Texas environmental group fanned out on their kayaks around a bay collecting plastic pellets that had washed ashore after being discharged from a factory. Their efforts paid off as the plant owner has agreed to pay a $50 million settlement to resolve Clean Water Act litigation.
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Skipping school to glide through a dirty Bangkok canal on a paddleboard, Lilly fishes out rubbish in her mission to clean up Thailand, where the average person uses eight plastic bags every day.
Read moreGovernments around the world are grappling with how to tackle the scourge of single-use plastic, but for the people of Bangun trash equals cash.
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Scientists discovered just how far reaching human pollution has become when they discovered an “enormous” amount of microplastics in the Arctic snow, according to new research released Wednesday.
Read moreTrying to hold support in the manufacturing towns that helped him win the White House in 2016, President Donald Trump is showcasing growing efforts to capitalize on western Pennsylvania’s natural gas deposits by turning gas into plastics.
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A study released Wednesday in the scientific journal Matter offers a biotechnological strategy for purifying microplastics in water systems before the contaminants can enter bodies of water and threaten the health of marine and human life.
Read moreA trade group for the plastics industry failed to persuade the European General Court on Thursday that the industrial chemical BPA should not be classified as toxic.
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Now found in humans’ bloodstreams and deep in oceans, plastic’s proliferation is growing exponentially: Yearly global production is expected to exceed 1 billion tons by 2050. But there are glimmers of change within the deluge. A movement calling on mankind to wean itself off plastic bags turns 10 on Wednesday.
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Researchers say they may have identified a new kind of plastic pollution in the sea and they’re calling it “plasticrust.”
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A study of whales and dolphins that have washed up dead in Greece over a 20-year period has found alarmingly high levels of plastic trash — mostly bags — in the animals’ stomachs, which can condemn them to a slow and painful death.
Read moreThe average American consumes more than 70,000 pieces of microplastics per year, though the health effects of that consumption are unclear.
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