Scientists have discovered a groundbreaking new way to give old plastic bottles a second life — one that could help clean the ...

While plastics help enable modern standards of living, their accumulation in landfills and the overall environment continues to grow as a global concern.

Littering and disposal systems cause microplastic’s ingestion into the environment, which can assimilate into food items to be consumed by humans and animals. Many day-to-day practices contribute to ...

The world has a big plastic problem that it's yet to fix. We're trying to reduce our reliance on plastic, but that's seemingly impossible in modern society. The material is too important for our daily ...

Plastic is cheap to make and shockingly profitable. It’s everywhere. And we’re all paying the price. On a Saturday last summer, I kayaked up a Connecticut river from the coast, buoyed by the rising ...