A team of Japanese researchers has successfully developed a new type of plastic that is strong, transparent and, above all, ...

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

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

Sunscreen chemicals like EHMC may be silently increasing ocean plastic pollution by strengthening harmful microbial biofilms ...

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

Plastic Free July is designed to help people reduce their use of single-use plastics and improve recycling practices.

By Max Martin As shiny, pearl-like white plastic pellets rode wave after wave and piled up on the beaches of ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- The Shedd Aquarium is working to keep Chicago beaches and waterways free of garbage and trash. They are ...

Countries are currently negotiating a global treaty to end plastic pollution and make plastics safer and more sustainable.

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

Amid a global plastic-pollution crisis, artist Erik Jon Olson turns his own plastic waste into quilted works of art in which ...

Oregon launches the Plastic Pollution and Recycling Modernization Act, enhancing recycling services statewide.