As plastic waste piles up worldwide, researchers are uncovering troubling ways it's being reused, with consequences that ...

With tailored, evidence-based policies, the U.S. can relieve the burden on local and municipal governments, communities, and ...

Former EPA official Judith Enck explains why plastic pollution is a production problem—and how policy, not recycling, can ...

Deep inside a facility in Chandigarh, a breakthrough in chemical recycling is unfolding. There is a unique process that ...

Plastic is everywhere in modern society. While it has paved the way for enormous progress, the pollution it leaves behind is ...

California has hailed itself as a leader in single-use plastic reduction and legislation. But a scuttling of its pioneering ...

A bucket of liquid plastic that never hardens sounds like a fantasy in a factory. It is also the kind of problem that drives ...

Paper, yard trimmings, wood, and other materials all end up in municipal landfills in significant quantities, and yet no one ...

"The Problem With Plastic" is both a call to arms and a thorough look at the far-reaching effects of plastic production.

Pollution is one of the biggest problems facing planet Earth, a consequence of poor practices and decisions made by humankind ...

Plastic flows across the Pacific with no apparent speed. Some fragments have been moving for years, thinning and softening as ...