China stopped taking our plastic waste. Now we're drowning in it. America has long had a plastic problem. It's an urgent question — what do we do with the 40 million tons of plastic waste we ...

And of that waste, a staggering 6.3 billion tons ... researchers have found an astonishing volume of plastic from South America, Asia, New Zealand, Russia, and as far away as Scotland.

Recent concerns about contaminants in black-colored plastics sparked consumer concerns, but there’s more than one reason to ...

As a result, textiles have become an overlooked source of plastic pollution. Researchers discovered that waste from the global apparel industry is leaking millions of tons of plastic into the ...

Like a salmon returning to its birthplace, ocean plastic is finding its way back to its makers. In the Pacific Northwest – a ...

From fast food to kitchen staples such as rice and salt, a new study highlights the extent of plastic contamination in foods.

Plastic waste production skyrockets during the holidays 02:41 According to Stanford Researchers, during the holidays, from Thanksgiving to New Year's Eve, Americans create a gigantic mountain of ...

New reports tracking the efforts to reduce plastic waste show some companies are making slow but steady progress to cut harmful plastics and increase reuse and recycling, but the world is still ...

Fox also advises against reusing any single-use plastic item with moving parts, like a flex joint or a bottle cap. There is ...

These plastic bales are heading for recycling - but most plastic is discarded Plastic waste dumps, says Prof Erwin Reisner, could be the oil fields of the future. "Effectively, plastic is another ...

America’s Test Kitchen ... reviewed paper in 2018 highlighting the presence of recycled electronic waste in black plastic products. “Secondly, if you’re heating in oil, the oil acts like ...