The U.S. government has an official plan for a zombie apocalypse Think The Walking Dead is straight-up fiction? Well, it ...

Documenting the garbage along New Jersey beaches helps state lawmakers make policy decisions on plastic pollution, says this ...

A team of biomaterial engineers, environmental resource specialists and industrial design researchers affiliated with a host ...

Around 100 billion plastic beverage containers are sold in the United States each year — much of which ends up in landfills and waterways, polluting the environment and endangering wildlife. Studies ...

Plastic bag bans may not be the best way to keep plastics out of the ocean, argues Todd Myers. Jay Karr Island Packet We don’t want plastic in the ocean. Most plastic degrades slowly ...

The new technique is safer, cheaper, and more sustainable. In a groundbreaking development that could help address the global plastic crisis, scientists have unveiled a new method to break down ...

With the organization’s technology, an area of the ocean the size of a football field is being cleaned every five seconds.

Small pellets of plastic are washing up on the east coast ... adding to a toxic cocktail in the ocean, but the owner clarified this was not the case. The incident is posing a different threat ...

University of Portsmouth provides funding as a member of The Conversation UK. Thousands of tonnes of plastic pollution could be escaping into the environment every year … from our mouths.

People in the UK have been paying extra for plastic bags in supermarkets for a decade now – but a loophole in the law means billions of bags are still being used. The plastic bag levy first came into ...

Lummus Technology, LLC provided the funding for research on plastic waste pyrolysis oils at UT Arlington. Alexander Kaplitz does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any ...