Have you ever stopped to think about what happens to those little orange pill bottles after you finish your prescription? Every year, around 200 billion of these bottles are produced worldwide, and ...

One of the biggest environmental issues in our modern world is plastic, which has become integral in the manufacturing of everything from electronics to furniture. Our reliance on plastic has led to a ...

As the planet drowns in plastic waste, companies are devising bizarre alternatives, including stretchy seaweed, reverse vending machines and bamboo utensils, to save us all. Plastic waste often does ...

There is no shortage of news about plastic’s ubiquity or its harms. Microplastics are in clouds, drinking water, playgrounds and our blood. Marine mammals are entangled in and ingest plastic at ...

One way to help tackle the growing plastic pollution problem could be all around us: microscopic bacteria and fungi. A growing body of research has identified a host of microorganisms, some of which ...

Recent studies estimate the average American consumes a credit card's worth of plastic each week. That's equivalent to ingesting 50 plastic grocery bags each year. Now, area innovators are coming up ...

Local News Solutions to the microplastic problem Recent studies estimate the average American consumes a credit card's worth of plastic each week. That's equivalent to ingesting 50 plastic grocery ...

"We are drilling for oil to produce plastic that we burn or bury a few months later. It is an economic and ecological absurdity." These were the words of French President Emmanuel Macron to the ...

Of the nearly 400 million tons of plastic waste produced annually, about half ends up discarded, polluting landscapes and waterways worldwide. Developing sustainable ways to recover, break down and ...

We know that plastic pollution has become a major environmental and health issue across the planet, as much of the waste ends up in landfills, and sometimes, the ocean. “We call plastic a threat ...

WION returns with the third edition of Mission Sustainability and in the first session titled “Solving the Plastic Puzzle”, WION's Molly Gambhir talks about the massive plastic problem plaguing the ...