Human waste, mostly plastic, was found in abundance at the deepest part of the Mediterranean called the Calypso Deep, 3.1 ...

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

Over 60,000 Bottles of Popular Women’s Supplement Recalled Over ‘Poisoning’ Risk 125,000-year-old 'fat factory' run by ...

Scientists have developed a new method to identify and map plastic waste in urban areas using satellite imagery, offering new ...

"As far as the eye could see." Photojournalist alarmed after documenting 'dystopian' scene along popular beaches: 'I could ...

What happens to the remaining 90% of waste, much of it which can last up to 500 years, is a tragedy of our own making. Plastics have become omnipresent — found everywhere, from the peaks of ...

Fu argued that while completely eliminating plastic use is unrealistic, it is essential to use it in a “more controllable and precise way”. Worldwide, over 90 per cent of plastic is not recycled, with ...

Douglas McCauley, a professor of ocean science at the University of California, Santa Barbara, said the reach of that waste became apparent when he collected plastic debris from the nests of ...

Many of us are doing our bit to cut down plastic pollution by recycling and reducing single-use items such as bags and straws, but is it enough? With hundreds of thousands of tons of plastic leaking ...

The second day of negotiations for a treaty to curb plastic pollution is underway after environmental activists and civil society warned leaders that “the world is watching”.

Plastic Bank was founded in 2013 with the aim of addressing ocean plastic pollution and poverty. With an estimated 11 million tonnes of plastic waste entering the oceans each year – a number that ...

Plastic has been found everywhere – from deep ocean trenches to the highest mountain tops, but these observations only reveal isolated snapshots of the overall plastic pollution picture.