Think of ocean plastic and you may picture bottles and bags bobbing on the waves, slowly drifting out to sea. Yet the reality ...

A study published in Nature Communications has shown that, rather than being discarded, plastics can be transformed into ...

The Conversation reports on single-stream recycling, emphasizing its convenience but noting significant contamination issues ...

Community-led research from UCSB’s Benioff Ocean Science Laboratory spans three years, four continents and eight countries to reveal the scale of river plastic waste and offer solutions to stop it at ...

Seventh-grader Ethan Lentz, 13, marvels as a liquid turns into gelatin Tuesday as Lexin Aldridge, a 14-year-old seventh-grader, adds a powder. All of the seventh- and eighth-graders at Wayne E.

What would a month without buying any new single-use plastic products look like? It’s a tall order for many Americans, who go through about five pounds of plastic a week, according to Oxford ...

The plastics industry has worked for decades to convince people and policymakers that recycling would keep waste out of landfills and the environment. Consumers sort their trash so plastic packaging ...

At K 2025, the Alliance to End Plastic Waste engaged with new and existing partners to scale up circularity efforts, focusing ...

Plastics recycling trade groups on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean have spent more than two years examining the differences ...