Organizers in communities near the petrochemical plants that produce plastics hope that a global treaty to limit plastic waste can reduce the toxic emissions polluting their air and water. Community ...

Since plastic began to be mass-produced in the 1950s, the material has been building up in the environment and in people’s bodies. These six graphs illustrate just how bad the problem has gotten, and ...

A new study from the University shines a light on the enormous scale of uncollected rubbish and open burning of plastic waste in the first ever global plastics pollution inventory. University of Leeds ...