People walking the streets of downtown Petaluma, California, started seeing something new on the sidewalks in summer. Alongside the usual trash cans and recycling containers were large purple bins ...

A worker transports plastic waste slated for a compressor in Bentong, Malaysia, in June 2024 before the waste is recycled and sold. (Mohd Rasfan / AFP/Getty Images) Malaysia has banned plastic waste ...

With 430 million tons of plastic waste generated annually and less than 10% of it recycled, the plastic crisis is out of control. Thankfully, HIRO Technologies is creating a new path forward, powered ...

Community-led research from UCSB’s Benioff Ocean Science Laboratory spans three years, four continents and eight countries to reveal the scale of river plastic waste and offer solutions to stop it at ...

Malaysia will ban plastic waste imports from the U.S. starting Tuesday because of America’s failure to abide by the Basel Convention treaty on international waste transfers, in a move that could have ...

(BPT) – The world’s oceans are a magical, beautiful ecosystem … and they also need help — urgently. According to the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, by 2050, there will be more plastic by weight than fish ...

There might be a simpler way to combat the global plastics use problem. Modern society has has a big problem when it comes to plastic -- and it's contributing heavily to pollution and climate change.

As talks on a global treaty on plastic waste approach, an environmental group has found that only a handful of U.S. states are taking meaningful action to rein in the plastic waste that harms ocean ...