Rashedul and I watch as they start tearing out handfuls of invasive water hyacinth and filling sacks with discarded plastic ...

It also required them to achieve significantly higher recycling rates for plastic products, finance a $500 million annual fund to clean up existing pollution, and make all of their single-use pack ...

KTLA’s new ocean conservation series ‘Saving Our Seas’ dives into one of the largest and most worrisome issues facing our planet… the plastic problem. It’s a compounding catastrophe that ...

The collapse of a tailings dam—an earth-filled embankment used to store mining waste—on February 18 released an estimated 50 million liters of waste into the Kafue River, according to ...

This is their first time aboard a ship, let alone one with a purpose. Grandly christened the Plastic Odyssey, this 40-metre long “floating laboratory” is a three-and-half year expedition that ...

pyrolysis could reduce the amount of plastic waste pollution that ends up in landfills and oceans. Additionally, converting plastic waste into usable products could help lower the production ...

The world has been waiting for a global plastics treaty since 2022, when representatives from 175 nations agreed on a mandate to create a legally binding instrument to end plastic pollution.

These brick kilns now encircle the city along the five rivers: Buriganga ... 30% of the pollution in Bangladesh’s bigger cities originates in India. As winter sets in, the northwestern wind carries ...

plastic may not be forever—and landfill bacteria can help shorten the life of plastic pollution. The paper is published in the journal PNAS Nexus. More information: Xiaoxing Lin et al ...

The nurdles — balls of plastic resin used in plastics production — and other pollution were released into the sea in the early days of the incident. Lincolnshire Wildlife Trust and Norfolk Wildlife ...