Ahead of the UN treaty on plastics, a new report in The Lancet journal on Monday has warned that plastic pollution is an ...

The main component of cigarette filters is a plastic, cellulose acetate, and trillions of butts are discarded into ...

First Minister John Swinney has been called on to take urgent action to crackdown on plastic pollution. In an open letter ...

When Tiwonge Mzumara-Gawa was a child, her mother sent her to market with a basket woven from grasses. “But now we don’t do ...

The Lancet’ warns that the risks of more than two-thirds of known substances are being ignored. The scientific publication ...

Plastic recycling is inefficient, toxic, and hard to scale. Engineers are now exploring better material flows to build safer ...

A final round of negotiations to adopt a global treaty against plastic pollution will take place in Geneva, Switzerland.

THE Scottish government has been urged to stop the increasing levels of plastic pollution in an an open letter signed by 18 environmental and civil groups. First Minister John Swinney faced calls to ...

Burning plastic in dumps and open fires is as big a problem for the planet as littering, scientists said Wednesday in a detailed new assessment of how plastic enters the environment.

For steel-making communities, plastic-burning pollution is headed your way. The Department of Energy has proposed a $182 million taxpayer loan for a company that will build a plastic trash plant ...

Mysuru: Hundreds of jaggery production units or ‘alemanes' in Chamarajanagar are burning worn-out tyres, plastic, and rubber ...