Now, new research, published Friday in Science Advances, reexamines the U.S.’s role as a plastic consumer and concludes that the country has much more work to do at home to manage its waste.

For many people, "plastic pollution" calls to mind pictures of turtles and other marine life drowning in single-use plastic ...

Single-use food and beverage packaging forms more than 84% of the plastic waste in the eco-sensitive Himalayan region, an anti-waste collective of NGOs has found. According to the Zero Waste ...

The global plastic crisis has long been a ticking time bomb, but now, it seems, a revolution is underway. One company, Corsair Group International, is rewriting the narrative of waste management ...

Lummus Technology, LLC provided the funding for research on plastic waste pyrolysis oils at UT Arlington. Alexander Kaplitz does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any ...

The move comes as other Southeast Asian nations are tightening up their regulations on the plastic waste trade. Thailand has also introduced a ban this year. Plastic scrap exported to Southeast ...

Thailand has become the latest country to take on the global plastic waste crisis by banning imports of plastic waste. For years, the country had served as a key destination for plastic waste from ...

According to Stanford Researchers, during the holidays, from Thanksgiving to New Year's Eve, Americans create a gigantic mountain of plastic waste ... a man dressed in a red suit with white ...

SEOUL, Nov 22 (Reuters) - South Korea has won international praise for its recycling efforts, but as it prepares to host talks for a global plastic waste agreement, experts say the country's ...

The world discovered that toxic waste was being dumped in Africa and other developing countries in the 1980s, and since 1988, more than a quarter of a billion tons of plastic waste have been ...

One is the Philippines. Estimates suggest that the Philippines generates between 2.7 million and 5.5 million metric tons of plastic waste each year, with around 20 per cent of it leaking into the ...

Millions of tons of plastic waste invade oceans annually, breaking into microplastics that contaminate food chains. Solutions include switching to reusable items, recycling correctly, and ...