Globally, only 14 per cent of the plastic we use is recycled – but some countries achieve higher rates and new technologies ...

To end the plastic crisis, the UN plastic pollution treaty must introduce new global binding rules to regulate production and consumption. These rules must include measures to ban, phase-out, ...

Opinion: Wake Forest University School of Law's Sarah Morath says the federal response to plastic pollution means state and ...

Binning gum is not the solution either. Addressing gum as a plastic pollutant dictates that the prevention of gum pollution ...

The amount of plastic being recycled around the world is stagnant at less than 10 percent with most new plastic still made ...

The IAEA is working with experts from all over the world to change that fate and protect marine life and the environment from plastic pollution. With its partners, the IAEA is researching and ...

At current rates plastic is expected to outweigh all the fish in the sea by 2050. Plastics pollution has a direct and deadly effect on wildlife. Thousands of seabirds and sea turtles, seals and other ...

"Alarming" levels of microplastic have been found in major rivers across Europe according to scientists in 14 studies ...

"Plastic pollution poses a serious threat to marine ... The Raman signal backscattered from a distant target was detected as a vertical line, and the hyperspectral information contained in each ...

Thousands of tons of plastic pollution could be escaping into the environment every year … from our mouths. Most chewing gum on sale is made from a variety of oil-based synthetic rubbers ...