The new bin on Weymouth's promenade aims to encourage people to bin their plastic bottles.

Underwater photograph in the Mediterranean Sea of waste pollution with a plastic bag in Ajaccio on the island of Corsica in the south of France on 15 August 2024. MARTIN BERTRAND Hans Lucas/AFP via ...

Scientists have developed new models that show plastic waste is accumulating differently in oceans than previously believed. While most attention has been focused on plastic that collects in large ...

A groundbreaking new study has uncovered the Levant Basin as one of the world's most concentrated graveyards for plastic packaging and the mechanisms that help the plastic sink down to the seafloor.

Dear fellow humans: what have we done? Not content with destroying our own homes and cities with trash we’ve let it get into ...

A crewed submarine descended more than 5,000 meters to the floor of the Mediterranean Sea’s deepest trench. What it found there — plastic bags, glass, metal, rubbish dumped overboard from boats — puts ...

The global plastic crisis has long been a ticking time bomb, but now, it seems, a revolution is underway. One company, Corsair Group International, is rewriting the narrative of waste management with ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Within 15 years, a garbage truck’s worth of plastic could be entering our environment every second. Not every ...

With 430 million tons of plastic waste generated annually and less than 10% of it recycled, the plastic crisis is out of control. Thankfully, HIRO Technologies is creating a new path forward, powered ...