Seven states have adopted Extended Producer Responsibility laws to make companies pay for their plastic. One industry leader ...

From getting stuck in nets to eating plastic that they think is food, creatures worldwide are dying from material we made.

Canada’s first marine waste recycling program has been turning abandoned fishing gear and other plastic waste from the ocean ...

Efforts to collect plastic waste from the ocean are growing in popularity, and machine learning is emerging as a tool to ...

Community-led research from UCSB’s Benioff Ocean Science Laboratory spans three years, four continents and eight countries to reveal the scale of river plastic waste and offer solutions to stop it at ...

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine are private, nonprofit institutions that provide expert advice on some of the most pressing challenges facing the nation and world. Our ...

Chulalongkorn University has partnered with The Ocean Cleanup and the Department of Marine and Coastal Resources to use ...

However, with photochemical recycling, an LED light selectively splits stable chemical bonds in the polymer, allowing ...

Ocean Conservancy on Wednesday released a report that proposes a four-point solution to cutting ocean plastic waste by 45 percent by 2025 with the ultimate goal of eradicating the issue by 2035.

Canada’s first marine plastic recycling facility in British Columbia takes hundreds of tonnes of plastic waste and melts it ...

A new global alliance supports a community-investment project called Renew Oceans as part of its commitment to reduce plastic waste in the environment. Ten rivers transport more than 90% of ...