As nations began a second week of negotiations Monday for a global accord to end plastic pollution, an artist heaped piles of ...

Haram and her colleagues examined 105 items of plastic fished out of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch between November 2018 and January 2019. They identified 484 marine invertebrate organisms on ...

Plastic is a material that, without exaggeration, has radically changed our planet. Convenient and cheap, once a helper, it has now become a major threat to the ecosystem.

For a few years now, [Richard] of Tropical Ocean Cleanup fame has been working hard to clean the Philippines of the plastic trash that litters everything, and washes down the canals and rivers into… ...

The science of turning plastic trash into fabric was developed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2021 and has now become mainstream. You can buy fleeces made from 100% recycled ...

Within minutes, the PET began to disintegrate. The team has a lot more work to do before its recycling tool can take a realistic bite out of the world’s plastic trash problem. But it was still fun to ...

There is, nonetheless, a beauty and resilience to these creations. It’s amazing that birds recognize and match the properties of plastic and other trash materials to natural ones.