Researchers from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) have discovered that CDA is the fastest degrading type of plastic in seawater – technically classified as a bioplastic – and with ...

New research has detected high levels of flame retardants in some toys, kitchen utensils and other household items made from recycled black plastic. But the potential health effects remain unclear.

On a pristine beach in Gippsland, a team of scientists are dumping plastic rubbish. Their littering is extremely precise. When they're done, 14 squares of trash — each exactly 2 square metres ...

Consumers want something to be done about plastic pollution. Recycling is something. Therefore oil companies, manufacturers and retailers are doing it. The trouble is, many of these initiatives ...

By Hiroko Tabuchi Scientists have found plastic pollution almost everywhere they have looked. In clouds. On Mount Everest. In Arctic snow. Now, for the first time, tiny plastic particles have been ...

Final negotiations for the first-ever United Nations treaty on plastic pollution are due to take place at the end of November. The latest treaty draft states two major objectives: to end plastic ...

The United Nations says “the targeting of health and relief operations is broadening” in Lebanon. Hospitals say they have been forced to close or are struggling to operate. By Euan Ward ...

Since dolphins and humans inhale similar plastic particles, dolphins may be at risk for the same lung problems. As top predators with decades-long life spans, bottlenose dolphins help scientists ...

At the end of October, five Ukrainian delegates representing that nation’s government and energy industry will take part in a public symposium in Longview. There, delegates will meet oil, gas ...

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan's Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif called on Wednesday (Oct 16) for the expansion of China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) to enhance regional cooperation. He was addressing a ...

There are also the plastic resin codes with numbers from one to seven indicating what type of plastic the item is made off ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. In a bid to explain the scale of the massive project he is overseeing in Riyadh, Jerry Inzerillo points ...