They were washed in with the tide, most likely from China or the US, thousands of miles away -- part of an enormous plastic garbage patch, spinning in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, which you ...

This year marks the 29th edition of Fakuma, the trade show for the plastics processing industry in Friedrichshafen, Germany, ...

Planet or Plastic? is National Geographic’s multiyear effort to raise awareness about the global plastic trash crisis. Come to this page often to learn more, and find out what you can do to ...

A chemical process converts common types of plastic waste into the building blocks needed to make new plastics 1. The build-up of plastic waste in landfills and the environment poses substantial ...

The state budget deficit and general election appeared to moderate the environmental ambition of lawmakers and Gov. Gavin ...

Despite global concerns over the accumulation of plastic waste, the drive to produce new plastics shows no signs of slowing down. According to OECD data, the world’s annual plastic production ...

There often are tiny bits of plastic in the fish and shellfish we eat. Scientists are racing to figure out what that means for our health. Read this story and more in the June 2018 issue of ...

“How much plastic will you have for dinner, sir? And you, ma’am?” While that may seem like a line from a satirical skit on ...

In little more than a century, plastic has gone from being hailed as a scientific wonder to being reviled as an environmental scourge. It was in 1907 that the first modern plastic, bakelite ...

Scientists have developed a "self-digesting plastic", which, they say, could help reduce pollution. Polyurethane is used in everything from phone cases to trainers, but is tricky to recycle and ...

Scientists have new evidence to explain why plastic is dangerous to sea turtles: the animals mistake the scent of plastic for food. Thus, a plastic bag floating in the sea not only looks like a ...

Anker has recalled three of its power banks due to potential fire risk caused by defective lithium-ion batteries. Defective ...