Picture a pile of trash the size of Manhattan and taller than one and a half Empire State Buildings. That’s how much plastic ...

University of California, San Diego researchers found that more than 8 million tons of pandemic-associated plastic waste have been generated globally, with more than 25,000 tons already in global ...

The skyrocketing use of face masks during the COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated the immediate and long-term threat of plastic waste to life in the oceans.

When China banned plastic waste imports in 2018, countries like the United States, the Netherlands, Australia, and Japan didn ...

Since COVID-19, even drinks bottles made of recycled plastic – the most commonly recycled plastic item – have become less viable. The recycled plastic to make them is 83% to 93% more expensive than ...

Biomedical waste is a threat to global public environmental health and with ‘plastic footprint’ becoming larger by the day due to the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, concerns on plastic waste choking the ...

A year has passed since Japan introduced mandatory charges to customers for each single-use plastic bag taken from retail ...

Ten years after California approved a plastic bag ban that’s been blamed for making its plastic bag problem worse, the state is banning single-use plastic grocery bags entirely. In 2014, California ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. As the war with Iran sends the price of virgin plastic skyward, speculation is growing as to whether recycled ...