Plastic Pollution

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Judith Enck is a former regional administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, appointed by President Barack Obama, and the founder of Beyond Plastics, an organization dedicated to eradicating plastic pollution worldwide. She joins Mongabay’s podcast to discuss how governments can implement policies to turn off the tap on plastic…

Plastic pollution is often seen as an eyesore or a hazard to wildlife. But scientists have found that discarded plastic may also be reshaping the microbial world in ways that directly affect human health. A new perspective article published in Biocontaminant suggests that viruses living on plastic debris may be…

Lake Malawi, one of Africa’s most important freshwater ecosystems and a UNESCO World Heritage Site, is under growing threat from plastic pollution — endangering both its extraordinary biodiversity and the communities that depend on it. Home to more than a thousand species of cichlid fish found nowhere else on Earth,…

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As the world desperately searches for a way out of its global climate change and plastic pollution crises, nations are increasingly turning to burning municipal waste to make fuel as a solution to both problems. One approach, dubbed refuse-derived fuel (RDF), processes, packages and burns conglomerated combustible organic waste with…

The United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA), the world’s top decision-making body on the environment, opened its seventh session in Nairobi on Monday, aiming to take action on critical environmental challenges amid deep geopolitical divisions. Global emissions have continued to climb, the world is not on track to meet biodiversity goals and negotiations…

December 5, 2025 1 min read Add Us On Google Add SciAm A Garbage Truck of Plastic Will Be Dumped Every Second by 2040 Unless We Act Now, Report Finds An estimated 280 million metric tons of plastic waste will enter the air, water, soil, and human bodies every year…

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