Microplastics seem to be everywhere – in the air we breathe, the water we drink, the food we eat. They have turned up in ...

The Oregon cleanup made the headlines and soon spread to other states. In 1985, there were “Debris-A-Thons” in New Jersey, “Beach Sweeps” in North Carolina, and “Get the Trash Out of the Splash” in ...

In Cairo's Manshiyet Nasr — long nicknamed "Garbage City" for the piles of trash lining its streets — a new generation is ...

Tofino has long battled plastic waste, but with a new ban on the sale of single use plastic bottles, has taken its fight into ...

In October 2019, The Ocean Cleanup project made headlines around the world when its prototype vessel started collecting plastic from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. This launch followed a year of ...

The researchers found that an adult human brain may contain up to 7 grams of microplastics. They equated this to the weight of a disposable plastic spoon.

Growing up in the 1970s, Shaahina Ali recalled how she and the other kids would fight over pieces of trash on the beaches of ...

There's a time and a place to acknowledge the bad in the world, but that can't stop the good from shining through.

Plastic waste is sinking to the Mediterranean seafloor, creating one of the world’s biggest deep-sea pollution hotspots, a ...

Engineers at the University of Texas at Arlington developed a way to blend shredded plastic into asphalt, and early results ...