The current administration continues to senselessly undermine efforts to reduce single-use plastics. But plastic never was and never will be disposable, and neither are the people it poisons ...

The findings offer clear evidence that legislation can be used to curb plastic pollution — a growing concern as global waste generation is projected to more than triple by the end of the century ...

Chewing gum pollution is just another form of plastic pollution. It's time we start treating it as such. This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license.

Last week, I was in Ottawa where 180 nations debated the content of the global plastic pollution treaty, a text that contains more than 60 references to microplastics. What can be done to halt ...

The new U.S. strategy to combat plastics waste covers five areas: plastic production, product design, waste generation, waste management and plastic capture and removal.

Sherri “Sam” Mason, the SUNY Fredonia professor whose research has focused on “microplastics,” taught teachers last week about the environmental hazards of plastics. Mason’s lecture was ...

An international group of scientists has called for the United Nations Treaty on Plastic Pollution to focus more on measures to reduce the production and consumption of plastics and the prevention ...

I have been researching and speaking about the plastic pollution problem for 15 years. The people I talk to are always surprised, and disgusted, when they find out they’ve been chewing on a lump ...

NEW YORK — Eric T. Schneiderman, state attorney general, has issued a pamphlet aimed at helping consumers choose personal care products that do not contain microbeads, a known form of plastic ...

California’s Plastic Pollution Prevention and Packaging Responsibility Act (“SB 54” or “the Act”) is unique in the growing extended producer responsibility (“EPR”) packaging ...

Plastic production doubled between 2000 and 2019 alone, reaching 460 million metric tons, according to countries that joined a High Ambition Coalition to End Plastic Pollution.