California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill banning plastic bags from grocery store checkouts, including the thicker, "reusable" bags that stores switched to after an earlier ban. “We deserve a ...

Watch the CBS Reports documentary, "Advanced Recycling: Does Big Plastic's Idea Work?" About 48 million tons of plastic waste are generated each year in the U.S., and very little of it is ever ...

The world produces around 250 million tons of plastic waste in municipalities in one year — plastic bottles, cigarette butts, plastic packaging and much more. Much of that waste — equivalent ...

Ed Cook is active across the waste management and plastic pollution sector. He has worked on projects funded by the World Bank, OECD, UKRI, BBSRC, UNOPS, Royal Academy of Engineering, Pew ...

These tiny plastic particles can range in size from 5 millimeters (as small as a pencil eraser) to 1 nanometer, which can’t be seen with the naked eye, the Environmental Protection Agency ...

Time flies. The Motorola Edge 50 Neo was unveiled this week (our hands-on here), and today we have it at our doorstep and ready for review! We got the Pantone Poinciana color, which is between ...

With emissions spiralling and health impacts mounting, the time for half-measures is over, say experts; India must confront the scale of its plastic pollution Despite ongoing efforts to curb ...

Expanding their impact beyond shorelines, ECO-CLEAN Solutions has partnered with Poralu Marine, the parent company of Searial Cleaners and a global leader in sustainable marina infrastructure. In ...

Indonesia is the fourth most populous nation in the world with 275 million people, but the second largest plastic polluter after China, according to the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP).

Brandy Deason works with the non-profit Air Alliance Houston as the Climate Justice Coordinator for Plastic Pollution. The organization works to improve our city’s air quality, especially in ...

Chemists have developed a catalytic process that turns the largest component of today's plastic waste stream, polyolefin plastic bags and bottles, into gases -- propylene and isobutylene -- that ...

Despite the planet’s growing plastic pollution crisis, petroleum-based polymers have become an integral part of modern life. They make cars and airplanes lighter and more energy efficient.