Within 15 years, a garbage truck’s worth of plastic could be entering our environment every second. Not every minute. Every second.

The Shocking Truth About Global Plastic Recycling Rates The statistics around plastic recycling are absolutely devastating.

The ubiquitous plastic beverage bottle makes up about half of plastic waste collected for recycling in the U.S. Most recycled ...

Discover the urgent environmental problem of ocean plastic pollution in this insightful video. Starting with scientific ...

New research tallies the hidden health, environmental and economic impacts of litter — and why upstream fixes matter.

In the 1967 film, “The Graduate,” Dustin Hoffman, fresh out of college, receives career advice from an older adult at a party: “Plastics.” Not bad advice at the time. Today ...

With its production continuing to increase at an exponential rate, our problem with plastic pollution is showing no sign of slowing down. A new study mapping mapping the movement of plastic waste has ...

Selecting one kind of plastic over another is often used to accomplish this goal. However, to date, no material selection framework has considered or quantified environmental persistence, or the time ...

We all agree we must solve the issue of plastic waste in the environment. According to a Harris poll from this spring, more than eight in 10 U.S. adults are concerned about the impact companies have ...

Certain single-use plastics may soon be banned in the City of Santa Barbara. Items include small plastic water bottles, mylar ...

Restaurants and other businesses are scrambling to survive. We’re recovering from a record-breaking forest fire season and looking at more of the same. Suicide rates continue rising. Children are ...