"We get 2 to 5 shipments a week like this." Employee posts alarming behind-the-scenes photo of their company's shipping ...

Pieces of cheese are being stored in a container that's surrounded by loose plastic wrap. - Westend61/Getty Images Plastic cling wrap is a common sight in many domestic kitchens, being a largely ...

Plastic pollution is a "grave, growing and under-recognized danger" to health that is costing the world at least $1.5 trillion a year, experts warned in a report on Monday. The new review of the ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Within 15 years, a garbage truck’s worth of plastic could be entering our environment every second. Not every ...

Climate change conditions turn plastics into more mobile, persistent, and hazardous pollutants. This is done by speeding up plastic breakdown into microplastics—microscopic fragments of ...

Geneva — Negotiators working on a landmark treaty to address the global crisis of plastic pollution failed to reach an agreement during talks that extended into Friday in Geneva. Nations were meeting ...

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 ...

In the 2022 resolution to develop the treaty, the committee noted that “the high and rapidly increasing levels of plastic pollution represent a serious environmental problem at a global scale, ...

A new study has some good news, but there’s a problem: Ocean pollution appears to be growing fast. By Delger Erdenesanaa There’s less plastic pollution flowing into the ocean from land than scientists ...