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

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

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

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

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

Marine plastic litter tends to grab headlines, with images of suffocating seabirds or bottles washing up along coastlines. A study published today reveals yet another hidden source of this deadly ...

Most comprehensive analysis to date finds plastic contains 16,325 chemicals – and just six per cent of them are globally regulated ...

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

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

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

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