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 ...

Senior leaders from the Philippine government, international development agencies, multinational companies, and civil society ...

Costas Velis is actively involved in the waste, resources and circular economy sector in research, advising, scholarship and consultancy capacities. He is affiliated with University of Leeds and ...

The world creates 57 million tons of plastic pollution every year and spreads it from the deepest oceans to the highest mountaintop to the inside of people's bodies, according to a new study that also ...

Climate change conditions turn plastics into more mobile, persistent, and hazardous pollutants. This is done by speeding up plastic breakdown into microplastics—microscopic fragments of ...

Within 15 years, a garbage truck's worth of plastic could be entering our environment every second. Not every minute. Every second.

Leaders from around the world have gathered in Busan, South Korea this week in hopes of finally striking a global treaty to reduce the world’s growing level of plastic pollution. Negotiations began ...

The surging tide of microplastics is already an environmental and health threat, but as the world heats up — driving increasingly extreme weather — it’s transforming them into “more mobile, persistent ...

Plastic pollution is widespread across the Amazon Rainforest’s rivers, plants and animals, according to a recent study. Previous research suggests up to 10% of total plastics in the ocean arrive there ...

The world’s plastic crisis isn’t simply environmental; it’s existential. A recent study in the journal Nature Medicine found that brain samples contained 10 times more microplastics (equivalent to a ...

Scientists discovered that bacteria commonly found in wastewater can break down plastic to turn it into a food source, a ...

Geneva — Negotiators working on a landmark treaty to address the global crisis of plastic pollution failed to reach an agreement during talks that extended into Friday in Geneva. Nations were meeting ...