Plastic Pollution

Greenpeace on Wednesday raised the alarm over microplastics in rivers after finding the pollutant in all the rivers it tested in Britain, calling it a "problem of enormous complexity". "We ignore this problem at our peril," warned David Santillo, senior scie…

Greenpeace on Wednesday raised the alarm over microplastics in rivers after finding the pollutant in all the rivers it tested in Britain, calling it a “problem of enormous complexity”. “We ignore this problem at our peril,” warned David Santillo, senior scie…

Take a moment to imagine yourself on a sun-kissed beach on Koh Rong, watching the sea foam onto the white sand and hearing the gentle rustle of tropical rainforest behind you. The stunning beaches and vibrant marine biodiversity of Koh Rong and Cambodia's oth…

The Group of 20 major economies were set to agree a deal on reducing marine plastic waste at a meeting in Japan Sunday where they also discussed energy security following the oil tanker attacks in the Gulf of Oman. Japan "proposed a workable framework" on ma…

The Group of 20 major economies are set to agree a deal on reducing marine plastic waste at a meeting in Japan today. Japan has "proposed a workable framework" on marine plastic waste that involves emerging and less developed countries, which has been welcom…

Plastic pollution: Bangor divers cleaning up the seabed

The documentary filmmaker Noah Hutton was at a scientific symposium when he first encountered Max Liboiron. “I kept hearing some of the sharpest, smartest critiques of status-quo assumptions I’ve ever heard,” Hutton told me. “She engaged with oth…

Pizza was just the first step to saving the world, according to Zume co-founder and CEO Alex Garden. The company, makers of a robot-powered truck that cooks pizzas en route to customers, today announced it is making a major pivot to manufacturing compostable …

A University of Sussex student has taken inspiration from the seas to find a solution to the man-made plastic pollution contaminating the world's oceans. Product design student Lucy Hughes has invented a bioplastic created from fish skin and scales and red a…

When researchers studied people from different parts of the world, they found microplastics in the stool of every person they tested. USA TODAY From the top of Mount Everest to the deepest oceans, we know that plastic trash is everywhere on Earth. Now we k…