This approach is far more carbon- and energy-efficient than conventional methods, according to the researchers.

Plastic pollution and its impact on the environment have become critical global issues in recent years. In response, the research teams have conducted a study to evaluate the carbon emissions ...

A collaboration between researchers at Imperial College London and GNS Science, suggests that reducing plastic pollution by 5% per year would stabilize the level of microplastics—plastics less than 5 ...

Within 15 years, a garbage truck’s worth of plastic could be entering our environment every second. Not every minute. Every second. Plastic is everywhere in modern life and has essential, lifesaving ...

Final negotiations on a global plastics treaty are set to take place later this year, and since plastics manufacturing is a major user of fossil fuels, almost two hundred petrochemical industry ...

New Jersey’s Plastic Pollution Reduction Act is an absolute success. In less than a year from the law’s May 2022 implementation, ghost plastic bags fell off the top 10 list of most common litter items ...

Mosquitoes trapped in the Grant Park neighborhood of Atlanta have tested positive for West Nile Virus, a possibly deadly ...

In Busan, South Korea, talks on a global treaty on plastic pollution, which were held from November 25 to December 1, ended in failure. Negotiations are due to resume at a later date. At the ...

The mislabeling of recyclable materials as waste continues to be a go-to verbal technique used by recycling’s detractors. Many stakeholders and the popular press have used the words “plastic” and ...

THE plastic pollution crisis is a public health crisis as well as an environmental one. In Southeast Asia, about 50 percent ...

The study, a collaboration between researchers at Imperial College London and GNS Science, suggests that reducing plastic pollution by 5% per year would stabilize the level of microplastics – plastics ...