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

Trillions of invisible plastic fragments—each smaller than a single bacterium—are polluting one section of ocean in volumes ...

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

A chemical commonly found in sunscreen could be making plastic in oceans even harder to break down, according to University ...

Filtered water at Bengaluru restaurants may not be as safe as assumed. A study finds that over 50% samples are contaminated ...

Biodegradable Plastics Market Key Trends PLA is biodegradable under specific conditions and is widely used in food packaging and disposable ...

The research shows how AI algorithms can increase the efficiency of plastic removal by more than 60 percent – a significant leap that brings the dream of plastic-free oceans closer to reality. AI ...

The bad news is that most of it will take centuries to decompose. Here’s a look at how long some everyday plastic items take to decompose based on a graph from Visual Capitalist.

The rise in plastic waste, including microscopic plastic floating in our oceans, is pushing more than 160 nations to develop a global plan to dramatically reduce the world's growing piles of plastic.

Countries are meeting in South Korea this week to hash out the final details of a global treaty aimed at eliminating plastic pollution — here's what experts say it needs to include ...

The group said last year that around 0.5 percent of plastic waste ends up in the ocean, and that nearly a quarter of the world’s plastic waste is mismanaged or littered. Other major countries ...

Larger plastics are easier to collect, but it will be harder to remove when if they breakdown into microplastics. Credit: Kyushu University/Isobe lab Researchers have determined that reducing plastic ...