Domestic plastic burning is prevalent in cities around the world, fuelled by poor waste management, survey finds.

Mangroves protect coasts and wildlife, but plastic waste now builds up inside roots, harming ecosystems and communities.

Plastic waste is shifting from environmental burden to a strategic resource as advanced materials turn industrial waste into ...

Plastic is now becoming as much of a problem as it has been a solution. Some say the global plastic waste crisis has reached a critical tipping point, that the oceans are swimming with microplastics, ...

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Plastic waste is piling up at a daunting pace around the world. The World Bank estimates that every person on the planet generates an average of 1.6 pounds (0.74 kilograms) of plastic waste daily. To ...

Researchers warn that plastic production and emissions are driving a rising global health burden, measured in millions of lost healthy years.

New reports tracking the efforts to reduce plastic waste show some companies are making slow but steady progress to cut harmful plastics and increase reuse and recycling, but the world is still "off ...

HARDLY seen by the Filipino masses in their daily lives is the continuing threat of microplastics and plastics, with a ...

Plastic waste has become a serious threat in Southeast Asia because of its adverse environmental, health, and economic ...