Washing household plastic containers in a dishwasher releases nanoplastic and microplastic pollution into wastewater, ...

This year’s theme is “Beat Plastic Pollution,” and like other themes along the way is a repeat of an emphasis, first in 2018, ...

to help curb plastic pollution as the country transitions to a circular economy. A circular economy aims to extend the lifespan of materials, keeping them in use for as long as possible to reduce ...

For any effort to make a real difference in tackling plastic pollution, it’s essential to set clear, transparent, and measurable goals. Metrics such as recycling rates, reductions in plastic ...

(Climate Change Commission, Sept. 9, 2024) As plastic pollution reaches alarming levels, Philippine producers, retailers and waste management experts must work together to develop solutions to arrest ...

The increase in single-use plastics has been dramatic since the 1980s. Today, plastic pollution is everywhere and has impacts on soil, food, air, and water. Practically every product has some sort ...

While they might seem harmless, these bottles contribute significantly to the growing plastic pollution crisis because they’re often not recycled properly. Plastic has become the go-to material ...

“I think it's probably the case that more plastic is being added than we realize.” One study published in 2018 in the journal Environmental Pollution concluded that people were more likely to ...

In the Osa Peninsula, home to 2.5% of the world’s biodiversity and declared by National Geographic as “the most intense place on the planet,” volunteers will fight against pollution ... to prevent ...

A battle over plastic—a material so prolific the UN calls the 90 percent of it that ends up as trash a pollution crisis—is under way in Florida. Coral Gables, a small city of 51,000 people ...

He is part of a team of researchers from Adrift Lab, a global unit that studies the effect of plastic pollution in the world’s oceans, that has been studying the island’s birds, sable ...

Often colourless and no larger than a grain of rice, plastic pellets are an easy-to-miss source of pollution on the city's shorelines, but a group of University of Toronto students and researchers ...