Warnings about plastic pollution have become increasingly frequent and shrill in recent years due to concerns about its environmental impact and potential effects on human health. Not only have vast ...

Plastics are now everywhere, with tiny fragments found in several major organs of the human body, including the placenta.

Plastic risk maps reveal hidden ocean hotspots where wildlife faces harm from ingestion, entanglement, and chemicals.

The manufacture, use, and pollution of this plastic currently costs the world at least $1.5 ... But we seem to have very ...

New study highlights ‘grave, growing’ danger of plastic pollution to world’s health ...

TU Darmstadt researchers discovered that forest soils contain large amounts of microplastics despite being far from direct pollution sources.

Globally, recycling has a large carbon footprint, as plastic waste travels from wealthy nations, reaching poorer ones where recycling generates employment ...

Unsurprisingly, researchers determined that subjects who consumed more takeout had higher levels of microplastics in their samples, finding "171 and 269 plastic particles in every 100 grams of feces" ...

Kathy Raiz of Beyond Plastics spoke to the Garden Club of Dublin about the devastating impact of plastic pollution on the environment, wildlife, and human health, and suggested local action such as ...

Microplastic pollution is an emerging environmental contaminant across the globe, with estimates that around three million tonnes of ...

Rising online grocery shopping, known as the Ocado effect, has increased single-use plastic bag sales in England, reversing a ...