Global Production Every year, the world produces a staggering 400 million tons of plastic. This sheer volume of production is ...

I’m a dedicated recycler. I fret when I see people throwing garbage in with soda cans and empty water bottles. I’ve even been ...

A small part of the slack is taken up by Manila ... The most heartening thing about the plastic waste problem is the recent explosion of attention to it, and even of serious, if scattered ...

Out of the 50 main rivers carrying plastic to the oceans, including small urban waterways, 44 are in Asia, "due to population density and bad waste management", Laurent Lebreton, Ocean Cleanup's ...

It is evident that plastic pollution is no longer an urban problem alone. Slowly, our villages are dying because of plastic ...

According to a new study from the University of New Mexico Health Sciences, the brain contains higher concentrations of ...

generated an average of 36 kg of plastic packaging waste. "Microplastic particles are currently found almost everywhere -- in water, food, fish, and even breast milk," says Artūras Torkelis ...

MANILA, Philippines — Plagued with discarded face masks, plastic bottles, and other trash during the COVID-19 pandemic, a small riverside community in Manila created its waste management service ...