Environmental ministers from 95 countries have called for a global treaty to address the planet's plastic pollution problem. ...

The fight against plastic pollution has a new and unexpected inspiration — mussels. Rice University scientists are borrowing ...

World Environment Day 2025 urges global action against air, plastic, and river pollution with powerful messages promoting a greener, cleaner future.

Plastic-eating bacteria could combat pollution problems, scientists hope. A bacteria commonly found in wastewater can break down plastic to turn it into a food source, a new study finds.

Eating plastic, it’s fantastic! Scientists might have found an unlikely solution to the trash problem choking our planet — a plastic-eating insect, which was described in the journal Nature ...

Washing household plastic containers in a dishwasher releases nanoplastic and microplastic pollution into wastewater, University of Queensland researchers have found. Dr. Elvis Okoffo from UQ's ...

AP Science Writer The world creates 57 million tons of plastic pollution every year and spreads it from the deepest oceans to the highest mountaintop to the inside of people’s bodies, according ...

These Five Companies Said They’d Curb Plastic Waste. They Made It Much Worse. New data shows the oil and chemical firms produced 1,000 times more than they cleaned up.

How dishwashing plastic containers fuels heart issues and pollution Published: Jun. 19, 2025, 11:42 a.m. Woman with long hair in white blouse puts crockery to wash in the dishwasher at home.

For almost two years, countries have been trying to negotiate a United Nations treaty to rein in plastic pollution. The talks were supposed to end with an agreement, but that didn't happen.