plastic

From grubby packaging engulfing small Southeast Asian communities to waste piling up in plants from the US to Australia, China’s…

European lawmakers voted overwhelmingly Wednesday for an EU-wide ban on single-use plastic products such as the straws, cutlery and cotton…

Animals living in the deepest ocean trenches have been found with plastic fragments in their gut, according to new research…

For almost a century, the inhabitants of Robinson Crusoe — named for literature’s most famous castaway — have known that…

  Adel al-Kawwaz expertly spins the potter’s wheel, shaping the wet clay into a smooth jug. His family is famous…

  A sperm whale has been found dead in Indonesia with 115 plastic cups and 25 plastic bags in its…

(CNN)  ̶  Without intervention soon, the amount of plastic littering the world’s oceans is expected to triple within a decade,…

  Fed-up with a growing mountain of stinking disposable nappies, a Dutch firm Tuesday started building the country’s first recycling…

  Mosquito larvae have been observed ingesting microplastics that can be passed up the food chain, researchers said Wednesday, potentially…

  France plans to introduce a penalty system next year that would increase the costs of consumer goods with packaging…