Drinks-related litter problem widespread on UK beaches, charity warns - The Marine Conservation Society said items like cans ...

Changes to household collections are part of wider moves to increase the recycling rates, which have stalled in recent years.

Our world is increasingly plastic. Back in the 1950s, humanity produced just 5 million metric tons of plastic per year; today it’s 400 million metric tons. Since plastic can take hundreds or thousands ...

Reducing plastic use this year should be on everyone’s radar, although it won’t be easy. According to the United Nations, “humanity produces over 430 million tonnes of plastic every year – two-thirds ...

Thousands of tons of plastic pollution could be escaping into the environment every year … from our mouths. Most chewing gum on sale is made from a variety of oil-based synthetic rubbers—similar to ...

A group of Clean Rivers volunteers working together to map plastic waste on the riverbank. Credit: Schone Rivieren. What motivates citizens to participate in a citizen science project on plastic ...

You may be familiar with microplastics and their unfortunate ubiquity across our planet. However, nanoplastics are a whole different ballgame. Researchers at Flinders University in Adelaide, Australia ...