Every year, the world produces roughly 400 million metric tons of plastic waste, according to the United Nations Environment ...

Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. A study published today in the weekly journal Science projects that at present rates the world's plastic waste will ...

Plastic waste is the most visible and damaging component of this crisis of waste management Uttarakhand is faced with in ...

TOPSHOT - A worker walks in front of packed recyclable plastic bottles at La Sylvia recycling center in Barva, province of Heredia, Costa Rica on June 20, 2018. Costa Rica discards 564 tons of plastic ...

The global production and trade of plastic waste have drastically increased over the recent decades. Plastic waste is mostly traded under the banner of plastic “recycling.” This practice of exporting ...

The global plastic crisis has long been a ticking time bomb, but now, it seems, a revolution is underway. One company, Corsair Group International, is rewriting the narrative of waste management with ...

Plastic waste is a growing concern worldwide, and researchers have been working hard to find solutions to this critical issue. Recently, some potentially promising news has emerged from a study that ...

For those of you over a certain age, you may remember this now famous line from the movie, The Graduate, delivered by the character Mr. McGuire to Benjamin Braddock, played by the actor Justin Hoffman ...

A plastic fishing line might take 600 years to break down in nature or a landfill. A plastic bottle might take 450 years. Dental floss might take decades. But in a Harvard lab, a recently discovered ...

India’s latest amendment to its Plastic Waste Management Rules leaves headline recycling targets unchanged, but introduces a series of provisions that allows companies to shift their compliance ...