CHICAGO (WLS) -- The Shedd Aquarium is working to keep Chicago beaches and waterways free of garbage and trash. They are ...

Plastic pollution tends to float near the surface and build up in large, rotating ocean currents known as gyres. The ...

Sunscreen chemicals like EHMC may be silently increasing ocean plastic pollution by strengthening harmful microbial biofilms ...

As shiny, pearl-like white plastic pellets rode wave after wave and piled up on the beaches of Thiruvananthapuram in India’s ...

Countries are currently negotiating a global treaty to end plastic pollution and make plastics safer and more sustainable.

A new study finds there are 27 million metric tons of invisible plastic particles in the North Atlantic alone.

A global instrument to combat plastic waste is only the start. Coordinated action, innovative financing and consistent ...

The world produces over 100 million tons of plastic a year, which could take hundreds of years to fully degrade, but ...

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: With the annual ‘Vavu Bali’ ritual just days away, pollution at the Papanasam beach in Varkala has ...

The millions of tons of plastics, microplastics, and nanoplastics dumped into the environment over the last several decades ...

No country receives more discarded plastic from wealthy countries, but shipments from the United States are no longer welcome ...

Plastic waste is a growing issue worldwide. According to United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) a truck load of plastic ...