I often research and write about plastics in the home, and the net result has been me ditching my plastic cutting board and ...

In case you missed it, in August of this year there were more than 8 billion of us on the planet. Although seven billion or eight – the difference is no longer felt, right? But how do you like this ...

“People often assume that plastic in the ocean just sinks or disappears. But our model shows that most large, buoyant ...

For the study, researchers analyzed more than 140 scientific articles on the impact of plastic water bottles on human health.

In recent years, solutions to the plastic problem have centered around two dominant narratives: recycling and alternative materials. Yet despite considerable investment and public awareness campaigns, ...

Banning single-use plastic, including via bag bans, is crucial for protecting public health, reducing pollution and creating ...

Scientists from the Department of Geography and Environmental Science at Queen Mary University of London have developed a ...

SC Johnson CEO Fisk Johnson laid out the business case for laws to control plastic waste. "Regulation is inevitable in my ...

Almost every week seems to bring a new report that plastic is even worse than had been thought for both human and planetary health. This week, it’s a paper in the Lancet that warns of a “grave, ...

Sahadat Hossain, a civil engineering professor at the University of Texas at Arlington, shows a sample of recycled plastic in asphalt and a bag of recycled plastic used to make the asphalt, May 1, ...