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

Researchers find that nationwide policies to ban plastic bags may be paying off, with fewer showing up during coastal ...

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

Plastic Free July is a global movement encouraging people to reduce single-use plastics. Around Lake Illawarra, it's more ...

Plastic bag bans and fees reduce shoreline litter, but research has found they aren't enough to solve global plastic ...

New research indicates there’s at least one strategy that works to curb an especially problematic and unnecessary form of ...

Locals built a boat from 2,500 recycled bottles to spotlight plastic pollution in Vietnam. Footage shows the vessel proudly ...

Nearly half a century of beach cleanups across America show that plastic bag bans reduce plastic bag litter washing up on our ...

Among the biggest culprits of plastic pollution in the ocean and along shorelines are thin plastic shopping bags, which have ...

Maybe you have been annoyed by the extra charge to get a plastic shopping bag, but a new study shows the policies actually help clean up shorelines.

The measure, which mandated a charge on all single-use plastic bags in supermarkets, came into force in October 2015.

Alliance for Just Green Climate Innovations (AJGCI), a non-profit organisation, has called for an end to plastic pollution to ...