Four billion plastic bottles... Drinks bottles are one the most common types of plastic waste. Some 480bn plastic bottles were sold globally in 2016 - that's a million bottles per minute.

Japan has been one of the world’s largest generators of plastic packaging waste per capita ... the increasing production of goods from multiple types of plastics means that fewer products ...

A startup in Mexico is trying to help get a handle on one Gulf coast city’s plastic waste problem by converting it into ...

Inside its gut, seven squiggles of plastic ... Bay in the Philippines live in an ecosystem polluted by household waste, plastics, and other trash. Whether microplastics ingested by fish affect ...