A recent innovation could make it easier to transform plastic waste into usable products. In September 2025, the University ...

Healthcare single-use plastics - a waste stream that remains unchecked, as the industry is largely exempt from regulations ...

Plastic waste is piling up at a daunting pace around the world. The World Bank estimates that every person on the planet generates an average of 1.6 pounds (0.74 kilograms) of plastic waste daily. To ...

Ocean plastic has hit a critical point in 2025, threatening turtles, whales, and seabirds. See which solutions still offer hope.

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. In the time it takes you to read this sentence—say, four seconds—the world produces ...

The Alliance to End Plastic Waste has published the first of a series of "playbooks" describing solution models for a circular economy for plastics. The first playbook covers household waste ...

Addressing plastic waste is a moral imperative and a necessary part of a holistic approach to protecting both creation and ...

As the world desperately searches for a way out of its global climate change and plastic pollution crises, nations are ...

With consumers embracing sustainability and looking to establish a more circular economy around plastics, corporate business models and industry are being forced to respond and, in the process, ...

This story was reported with support from the Pulitzer Center Ocean Reporting Network. Whenever the growing pile of plastic waste in front of her door takes up too much space, Asinate Lewabeka has a ...

Under the MoU, Omniya will be responsible for collecting various types of plastic waste from the source, while MRC’s ...