Plastic pollution ranks as one of the three most-pressing environmental concerns, along with climate change and water pollution, according to a 2019 survey included in the Business Case for a UN ...

Plastic pollution is a huge problem—and it’s not too late to fix it. Correcting our plastic waste problem requires a fundamental change in thinking about how plastics are made, used, and ...

How plastic pollution harms wildlife. Millions of animals are killed by plastics every year, from birds to fish to other marine organisms. Nearly 2,100 species, including endangered ones, are ...

The plastic pollution crisis has been widely blamed on a handful of Asian countries, but new research shows just how much the U.S. contributes. By Laura Parker October 30, 2020 ...

Smokers around the world buy roughly 6.5 trillion cigarettes each year. That’s 18 billion every day. While most of a cigarette’s innards and paper wrapping disintegrate when smoked, not ...

Cox says he hopes his research highlights that plastic pollution extends beyond marine wildlife. “We haven’t considered ourselves to be a potential impact [of plastic pollution],” he says ...

Tires: The plastic polluter you never thought about. Because tires are made of natural rubber and plastic, it’s easy to miss just how much they contribute to pollution in our oceans.

Why would an apex ocean predator eat gloves? Or rope? Or plastic cups? How does a whale end up with more than 200 pounds of waste in its stomach? In November 2019, a young sperm whale was found ...

The plastic pollution crisis has been widely blamed on a handful of Asian countries, but new research shows just how much the U.S. contributes. By Laura Parker October 30, 2020 ...