Lancet study reveals plastic pollution causes serious human health problems from factory production to waste disposal.

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

Discover the shocking $1.5trn cost of plastics on health. Learn about MNPs, mismanagement rates, recycling challenges, and ...

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 ...

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

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

At dawn, before Kisii town stirs to life, Brian Makori a street boy used to bend over heaps of garbage at Nyambera dumping site on the outskirts of Kisii town, with bear hands sifting through plastic ...

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.

Madras have developed an agriculture waste-based packaging material, which can be a sustainable alternative to conventional ...

The packaging made from farm and paper waste could replace plastic. It cuts pollution, uses crop waste, and may bring new ...

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 ...