More than 171 trillion pieces of plastic are now estimated to be floating in the world's oceans, according to scientists. Plastic kills fish and sea animals and takes hundreds of years to break ...

or frequently littered plastic products.” As part of that strategy, the agency would encourage companies to stop production of and consumers to reduce use of unrecyclable products. Before ...

It was close to the new year, so the Grants also thought it would be fun to document all of the littered plastic water, soda and juice bottles that Scruff found in 2022. They now post about his ...

Around 1.5 billion people around the world do not have access to garbage collection services, and how they dispose of their plastic waste has become a serious environmental problem. Most of these ...

You can get in touch with Jess by emailing j.thomson@newsweek.com. For the first time, the amount of plastic litter hiding inside Lake Tahoe has been investigated, and the results aren't good.

The world is littered with trillions of micro- and nanoscopic pieces of plastic. These can be smaller than a virus -- just the right size to disrupt cells and even alter DNA. Researchers find them ...

Researchers found 778 individual pieces of plastic in one bird on Australia's Lord Howe Island Researchers in Australia have discovered excessive amounts of plastic in birds on the remote Lord Howe ...

WHYY thanks our sponsors — become a WHYY sponsor The environmental group said it’s most concerned about persistent plastic waste, which last year made up more than 80% of debris collected. More than ...