Ropes and fishing gear used in the fisheries and aquaculture industries are a major source of microplastics in the ocean and littering along the ...

That explains the excitement around a chemical plant that will start commercial operations this year in northeast England. In ...

US President Donald Trump has signed an executive order ending a US government effort to replace plastic straws with paper.

Musk, who has previously criticized plastic restrictions, supported Trump’s decision. In 2022, he posted on X, “Stop the war ...

U.S. President Donald Trump has signed an executive order aimed at encouraging the U.S. government and consumers to buy plastic drinking straws, pushing back efforts by his predecessor to phase out ...

President Donald Trump said Monday he is banning federal use of paper straws, saying they “don’t work” and don’t last very ...

President Donald Trump’s campaign previously sold Trump-branded plastic straws with the message, “Liberal paper straws don't ...

Plastic Odyssey is a global initiative dedicated to tackling plastic pollution in the world's most affected regions. Over the ...

This British invention could stop the world’s biggest cause of plastic pollution - A campaign has been launched to make it compulsory for cigarette butts to be biodegradable ...

A British invention developed near to Rachel Reeves’ constituency in Leeds could solve the world’s biggest cause of plastic pollution. Campaigners want the UK government to force cigarette ...

The Ubiquity of Plastic in Our Lives Plastic has become an inevitable part of modern life. If you look around, almost everything you see has an element of plastic in it. From the water bottles we ...