To tackle the growing pollution crisis, scientists at RIKEN in Japan have developed a new type of plastic that remains stable ...

These oil giants are rapidly building petrochemical plants across the United States to turn fracked gas into plastic. This means more toxic air pollution and plastic in our oceans. We need urgent ...

Plastics are durable and strong, which is great while they’re being used but frustrating when they end up in the environment.

A new report by Oceana warns plastic foam has become an “ever-present part of modern life” and must be phased out at a local, ...

You see photos of plastic pollution in the ocean, but it can be hard to connect that to the ... They are too small to be filtered out by waste water plants and end up being consumed by small marine ...

Every year five million to 14 million tons flow into our oceans from coastal ... by household waste, plastics, and other trash. Whether microplastics ingested by fish affect humans is unknown ...

High levels of plastic ... of ocean animals. Exposure to high concentrations of PVC pellets prevented healthy development in all seven species. The main process affected was morphogenesis ...

There's even plastic where you'd never expect to find it, like in some clothes. So how does plastic end up in the ocean? There are ... Consider things such as paper, plants, plastic.

These oil giants are rapidly building petrochemical plants across the United States to turn fracked gas into plastic. This means more toxic air pollution and plastic in our oceans. We need urgent ...