California state lawmakers have announced a bill that would ban the sale of new or refurbished disposable electronic ...

Environmentalists have raised concern over increased plastic pollution in Lake Victoria, a vital resource for millions of people. The lake is facing significant pollution challenges, including plastic ...

Fields of glistening snow and iceberg peaks are what many people think of when they hear of the Arctic. However, this ...

A Curtin University-led paper, "The Use of Plastic as a Household Fuel among the Urban Poor in the Global South" published in ...

Over the past decade, the plastic straw came to symbolize a global pollution crisis. Here's more about the larger fight over ...

Plastic pollution remains a pressing environmental issue with far-reaching effects. Every year 19-23 million tonnes of plastic waste leaks into the aquatic ecosystem, polluting lakes, rivers, and seas ...

Syeda Rizwana Hasan, advisor to the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change and Water Resources, emphasised the urgent need for effective action against plastic pollution. She clarified ...

They come as sheets and films, fibers and pellets, bottles and bags ... “And it’s not an easy thing to measure.” Some plastic pollution enters the environment in already tiny pieces ...

How to stop plastic pollution: three strategies that actually ... such as the polyethylene terephthalate (PET) in drinks bottles. But other forms of plastic waste are much more challenging.

Negotiations on a treaty to end plastic pollution concluded in Busan ... the company has organized plastic collection drives to remove bottles and other material from the city’s beaches.