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

No one knows how much unrecycled plastic waste ends up in the ocean ... Bans on plastic microbeads in cosmetics (they’re exfoliants) take effect this year in the U.S., Canada, the U.K., and ...

The irradiation of polymers produces different effects on the polymers that are beneficial for recycling, reducing and reusing plastic waste. A new IAEA coordinated research project to develop the use ...

Residents must reject single-use plastic and make a conscious effort to segregate waste at source, says an active citizen.

It's part of a national effort to reduce plastic waste in a country that the U.N. says has the second highest rate of per capita plastic packaging consumption in the world. Convenience store chain ...

Their stomachs stuffed with plastic, some species starve and die. In addition to mechanical effects, microplastics have chemical impacts, because free-floating pollutants that wash off the land ...

He emphasizes that proper waste management is essential for reducing these risks. The use of plastic in Europe has skyrocketed over the past decade. Recent statistics reveal that in 2021 ...

However, nearly a decade later, data showed that the effects may not have been as ... has led to the emergence of a new kind of plastic waste problem, as people increasingly turn to food delivery ...

Considering that only one-tenth of all plastic waste is recycled ... shedding light on the effect of Ru content and the proximity and balance between metal and acid sites. Under optimal conditions ...

When Oregon banned retailers and restaurants from giving out plastic, single-use checkout bags in 2019, environmental groups hailed it as a big step forward in the fight against plastic waste.

The long-standing fight by civil society to protect Thailand from becoming a dumping ground for global plastic waste achieved a significant milestone when a law banning the import of plastic scraps ...