CANBERRA, April 3 (Xinhua) -- Plastic waste littering Australia's coastlines has declined by 39 percent over the past decade, according to a new study by the country's national science agency on ...

WASHINGTON — By 2030 Coca-Cola products will account for an estimated 602,000 metric tons of plastic waste entering the world ...

The village has banned plastic completely. Instead of discarding plastic waste, villagers find ways to reuse and repurpose it ...

In Amsterdam, birds are increasingly using materials available in the urban environment, including plastic packaging.

As Clapp reports, over the following quarter century, China accepted half the globe’s plastic waste, conveniently disappearing it even as air pollution spiked in its destinations in the country ...

Children play in a pile of scrap plastic in a village in East Java, Indonesia, while their mother nearby spends the day picking through it for tiny pieces of cardboard to sell back to the paper mill.

A new era of 3D-printing “microfactories” is helping to turn waste plastics into “highly competitive” products fit for use in the construction industry.

ISLAMABAD, March 30 (Xinhua) -- Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said on Sunday that the country is committed to mitigate waste pollution to save the environment, public health and national ...

KAMAKURA, Kanagawa Prefecture--For third-grader Yuki Harasawa, a video on YouTube about plastic waste was the last straw. She decided there and then to stop using plastic straws provided during ...

Instead, a huge amount of plastic waste is shipped abroad, with some of it recycled, but some taking tortuous routes around the globe before simply being burned or dumped, according to Greenpeace.