To help bring people and jobs back, Mountain True leads quest to pull jumbles of debris from Western North Carolina’s ...

The sample sizes were relatively small. Contamination risks and variability in measurements can make interpretation hard. And this study didn’t follow plastic levels in living people ...

THE fight against plastic waste ramps up at the start of the year with the launch of two separate movements with similar goals and strategies last January. First, the National Plastic Action ...

Their startling mechanism for promoting depolymerization relies on an additive that many plastics already contain: a pigment called carbon black that gives plastic its black color. Through a ...

Cars speeding along a smooth, black-colored street in Nepal's Pokhara are also driving over heaps of discarded plastic, transformed into an ingredient in road construction. Nepal's urban areas ...