In the “PBS NewsHour” special report called “The Plastic Problem,” premiering Wednesday night, a typical, earnest little girl is interviewed about the dangers of plastic waste to both humans and ...

A new report from the Pew Charitable Trusts and its partners predicts that plastic pollution will more than double over the next 15 years — the equivalent of dumping nearly a garbage truck full of ...

Worth an online watch: The PBS documentary ‘The Plastic Problem,’ which Chelsea Peterson says provides a grim picture of all ‘the ‘recyclable’ material that gets ... sent to landfills or developing ...

Researchers led by Takuzo Aida at the RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science (CEMS) in Japan have one-upped themselves in their quest to solve our microplastic problem. In a study published in the ...

Plastic ingestion and entanglement are major issues for sea life. The ocean is awash with plastic—more than 171 trillion pieces, scientists have estimated, and growing all the time. Animals get ...