Britain has banned everything from plastic straws to cutlery, but one type of plastic pollution keeps washing up and shows no ...

EcoSuperior shared its experiences using trash traps to engage, educate and empower locals to take action on plastic ...

An environmental advocacy group said going a day without using plastic is nearly impossible, which is exactly the problem.

The food industry giant is on trial before a criminal illegally dumping plastic bottles that contaminated the soil and water ...

Wintering gulls at a protected lake in southern Spain are depositing an estimated 530 kg of plastic into the wetland each ...

Plastics don’t just pose a threat to the marine environment and people’s health; they jeopardize basic human rights. This is the framing that a growing number of legal experts, policymakers, and ...

This Thursday marks World Environment Day, an annual awareness day born out of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). It’s the largest global platform for environmental outreach, and this ...

I was a junior in high school when the first World Environment Day (WED) was celebrated in 1972. Marked annually on June 5, it was established by the United Nations General Assembly and over the past ...

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We don’t often think of our clothing as plastic, but much of it is. Polyester, nylon, acrylic and other synthetic fibers are commonplace in the blended fabrics we wear every day. As a result, textiles ...

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Community-led research from UCSB’s Benioff Ocean Science Laboratory spans three years, four continents and eight countries to reveal the scale of river plastic waste and offer solutions to stop it at ...