Oceana estimates Coca-Cola will release 1.33B pounds of plastic into oceans by 2030. The company dropped its reuse pledge.

A 2016 report by the Ellen MacArthur Foundation claimed that by 2050 there would be 850 tons of plastic in the oceans and ...

Not to burst your bubble, but your gum might be packed with plastic. A new study found that chewing a single piece releases ...

New study finds chewing gum releases up to 637 microplastic particles in just minutes, with 94% released in the first 8 ...

While often marketed as a harmless, chewy sweet, most mass-produced gums, including prominent names like Wrigley, are made ...

While the threat that microplastics pose to human and ecological health has been richly documented and is well known, nanoplastics, which are smaller than one micrometer (1/50th the thickness of an ...

Around the world, plastics find their way into farm fields. Climate change makes agricultural plastic, already a necessity ...

Early studies suggest that plastic particles are influencing human blood pressure, a condition linked to serious ...

An international team of scientists is developing an ultra precise, efficient and flexible technique for counting and ...

While the threat that microplastics pose to human and ecological health has been richly documented and is well known, ...

Learn more about the tiny particles that can come off of your gum - what is essentially a soft piece of plastic - as you chew ...

Waste Energy Corp. dropped plans for a Fayetteville site but still seeks a location for its plastic-to-fuel system as ...