Plastic Pollution

London: British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Monday set out his government's priorities at a parliamentary ceremony full of pomp and pageantry attended by the queen, with Brexit top of the agenda. But with time running out for an amicable divorce deal bef…

Image copyrightGetty ImagesImage caption Plastic from Almaciga Beach, on the north coast of the Canary Island of Tenerife Microplastics are found everywhere on Earth, yet we know surprisingly little about what risks they pose to living things. Scientists a…

Plogging is an eco-friendly exercise that involves jogging and picking up trash. During his morning walk at a beach in Mamallapuram Saturday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi was seen picking up plastic litter, water bottles and other trash from near his resort …

Plogging is an eco-friendly exercise that involves jogging and picking up trash. During his morning walk at a beach in Mamallapuram Saturday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi was seen picking up plastic litter, water bottles and other trash from near his resort …

Video creation application TikTok marked National Coming Out Day Friday by teaming up with GLAAD on the #ThisIsMe initiative in support of LGBTQ youth.Through Oct. 16, TikTok will donate $1 to GLAAD, up to $50,000, for every #ThisIsMe video, and the app said …

Share to facebookShare to twitterShare to linkedin DJ and MAAC ambassador Lauren Lane in front of Robyn Wards Plastic Nation collection at Sabina Estates in Ibiza Credit: Music Against Animal Cruelty This past weekend, a…

Styrofoam cups are made of polystyrene, which takes centuries, not millennia, to break down. Getty Until today, it was thought that polystyrene would pollute the environment for millennia. This widely-held assumption was based off the observation that micro…

Ocean Cleanup breakthrough coincides with BlackRock's new circular economy fund and Unilever's plastics pledge.The Ocean Cleanup's latest prototype has successfully trapped ocean plastic in its latest trial. The Ocean Cleanup The war on plastic pollution c…

A study published by researchers at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) shows that polystyrene, one of the world's most ubiquitous plastics, may degrade in decades or centuries when exposed to sunlight, rather than thousands of years as previously tho…

For the second year in a row, Nestlé and Tim Hortons were the top companies behind branded plastic bottles, coffee cups and lids and other plastic waste collected in shoreline cleanups across the country, Greenpeace Canada reported Tuesday. Starbucks, McDona…