The best solution would be improving waste collection and recycling systems. While public awareness and education campaigns ...

Most people who separate their plastic waste for recycling assume the bulk of it will in fact be recycled. But current ...

The country is poised to introduce a series of regulations that will make companies that produce and use plastic packaging ...

It’s one of the world’s most common bacteria creating one of the world’s most commonly used painkillers, and the same ...

A Unep study estimates that between 19 - 23 million tonnes of plastic waste leak into aquatic ecosystems annually.

Researchers find that nationwide policies to ban plastic bags may be paying off, with fewer showing up during coastal ...

AppCyclers, an indigenous social enterprise, has launched the Northern Ghana Plastic Waste Reboot Initiative to tackle plastic pollution and promote sustainable livelihoods. It is aimed at improving ...

Plastic Free July is a global movement encouraging the world’s population to pledge to avoid single-use plastics during July each year.

The researchers found that plastic bag policies led to a 25% to 47% decrease in plastic bags as a share of total items ...

Scientists have figured out how to turn plastic waste into the painkiller acetaminophen using specially engineered bacteria.

With genetic tweaks, E. coli turned 92 percent of broken-down plastic into acetaminophen, charting a path to upcycle plastic waste sustainably.

A new report by an expert group in the ISC has called for a science-backed global treaty to end the menace of plastic ...