Plastic packaging can have substantially smaller environmental impacts—including 70% lower greenhouse gas emissions—compared to other packaging materials, according to a new study. The findings ...

While plastic has many valuable uses, we have become addicted to single-use plastic products — with severe environmental, social, economic and health consequences. Around the world, one million ...

Poor people in vast city slums across the Global South are burning plastic to cook their food, warm their homes and boil water for hot showers. Waste plastic is plentiful and highly flammable.

Used to make cooking spatulas, takeout boxes and kitchen peelers, black plastic made headlines after a study last year claimed that the material contained toxic flame retardants which could be ...

Plastic pollution negotiations make headway In December, countries moved closer to finalizing a legally binding instrument to end plastic pollution. During talks in Busan, Republic of Korea, ...

She is also a Certified Stress Management Coach. A recent study found a whole plastic spoon's worth of tiny plastic shards in human brain tissue. Pretty wild, right? Some researchers have ...

Every minute, the equivalent of one garbage truck of plastic enters our oceans. Scientists warn that by 2040, plastic waste in our seas could triple, threatening marine life and potentially our ...

As the trend towards the international dispersion of certain value chain activities produces challenges, discover policies to meet these Tax transparency and international co-operation Enhanced ...

From the frozen ice caps of the polar regions to the warm waters of the tropical coral reefs, from deep sea vents to shallow seagrass beds, the oceans contain the greatest diversity of life on Earth.