Some 20 million people globally collect plastic waste to make a living. In developing countries without formal reuse and ...

The global campaign to gain control of plastic waste is one of the fastest-growing environmental causes ever mounted. Yet it hasn’t been enough to make a dent in the growing tonnage of discarded ...

Some 8 million metric tons of pandemic-related plastic waste has been created by 193 countries, about 26,000 tons of which is now in the world’s oceans, where it threatens to disrupt marine life ...

By giving value to plastic waste, we make it a resource worth investing in, not just something to be discarded or sorted into bins according to inconsistent council guidelines.“ The UK ...

An estimated 111 million metric tons of plastic waste will be displaced by 2030 as a result of China’s recent ban on the import of most plastic waste, according to new research. That decision ...

But the plant never came close to its potential capacity of processing 3,650 tons of plastic waste a year, instead managing just 3,000 tons in total over five years of operation. Regenyx’s ...

The world produces around 400 million metric tons of plastic waste each year. Every day, 2,000 truckloads of it is dumped into the ocean, rivers and lakes. A team of women haul in fishing nets on ...

When it comes to reducing plastic waste, HIRO Technologies is starting with diapers, powered by an unlikely partner: fungi.

The new pact would be legally binding and could go beyond cleaning up plastic waste to curbs on future production. By Hiroko Tabuchi With the bang of a gavel made of recycled plastic and a ...

Indonesia grapples with plastic waste crisis amid global UN plastic treaty talks For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to ...

Eating plastic, it’s fantastic! Scientists might have found an unlikely solution to the trash problem choking our planet — a plastic-eating insect, which was described in the journal Nature.