Researchers are just beginning to understand how microplastics might be affecting human health. A Reporter visited a lab to ...

An incremental, big-picture approach—reducing or replacing ... (The majority of global plastic production goes into packaging.) Perhaps counterintuitively, shopping online can be better for ...

Plastic use keeps rising rapidly while recycling struggles. Incineration grows steadily, but it may harm more than help.

When we picture plastic pollution, it’s the littering of items like these that springs to mind. But new research points to problems upstream too, tracking plastic production to the oil fields ...

A CSIRO study has found 39% less plastic pollution in and around Australian coastal cities over ten years. It also found more ...