Introduction Soon, representatives of many of the world’s nations will once again convene to negotiate a global treaty aimed ...

Seven charts that explain the plastic pollution problem. Image source, Getty Images. 10 December 2017. ... 50 nations 'curbing plastic pollution' 6 June 2018. Earth is becoming 'Planet Plastic' ...

A report assessing state policies on plastics comes just weeks before negotiators meet to attempt to finalize a global treaty ...

Marine scientists have long known that plastic pollution in the ocean is a huge problem. The most visible sign of it is the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, an accumulation of waste (actually spanning ...

California received the highest score and Mississippi the worst in a new nationwide ranking of state laws designed to reduce ...

The organization’s "United States of Plastics" report uses a five-star scale to rate state-level efforts to combat plastic ...

A group of scientists analyzing global data collected over the past four decades have found a "rapid increase" in ocean plastic pollution since 2005, according to a research article published in ...

The world’s oceans are polluted by a “plastic smog” made up of an estimated 171 trillion plastic particles that if gathered would weigh around 2.3 million tons, according to a new study.

Researchers find that nationwide policies to ban plastic bags may be paying off, with fewer showing up during coastal cleanups.

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More and more waste plastic is ending up in our oceans. How big is the problem and why is plastic such a threat?