Changes to household collections are part of wider moves to increase the recycling rates, which have stalled in recent years.

Drinks-related litter problem widespread on UK beaches, charity warns - The Marine Conservation Society said items like cans ...

Plastic is literally everywhere: It shows up in the ocean, in our communities, even in the human body. And because plastics can break down into microplastics — and even nanoplastics — it easily ...

Reducing plastic use this year should be on everyone’s radar, although it won’t be easy. According to the United Nations, “humanity produces over 430 million tonnes of plastic every year – two-thirds ...

Our world is increasingly plastic. Back in the 1950s, humanity produced just 5 million metric tons of plastic per year; today it’s 400 million metric tons. Since plastic can take hundreds or thousands ...

In what could be a fix to the world’s plastic problem, researchers have developed a simple new method of harnessing moisture ...

It boggles the mind to know we humans are literally made of stardust. Nearly all the elements in our bodies come from the stuff produced as stars exploded over the last 13 billion years. It boggles ...

You may be familiar with microplastics and their unfortunate ubiquity across our planet. However, nanoplastics are a whole different ballgame. Researchers at Flinders University in Adelaide, Australia ...

Heavy industries such as aviation and chemical manufacturing contribute to about 20% of overall U.S. greenhouse gas emissions and will continue to depend on fossil fuels. While scientists are ...