As shiny, pearl-like white plastic pellets rode wave after wave and piled up on the beaches of Thiruvananthapuram in India’s ...

Products were distributed in New York, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Maryland, Virginia, Washington, D.C., North ...

In recent years, the concern of microplastic contamination in the food chain has attracted growing attention from researchers ...

Plastic pollution tends to float near the surface and build up in large, rotating ocean currents known as gyres. The ...

Negotiations toward a global, legally binding plastics treaty are set to resume this summer, with the United Nations ...

Countries are currently negotiating a global treaty to end plastic pollution and make plastics safer and more sustainable.

An engineer @UHouston has developed a way to turn bacterial cellulose — a biodegradable material — into a multifunctional ...