Plastic production and consumption is out of control. We are being force-fed more plastic than we need and in a way that makes it impossible to responsibly manage. To this point, plastic producers ...

Every day, tiny plastic particles called nano- and microplastics find their way into your drinking water. Invisible to the naked eye, these fragments could silently threaten your health. Recent ...

This story is part of Planet or Plastic?—our multiyear effort to raise awareness about the global plastic waste crisis. Learn what you can do to reduce your own single-use plastics. Read this ...

Plastic is all around us. Most of us use it every day. It’s a really useful material that has transformed all our lives, but unfortunately our used plastic is getting into the ocean. It can end ...

Mercier-Bonin and her team used an adult human colon model—a bioreactor system that mimics the microbiota niches of the human colon—to study how repeated exposure to polyethylene microspheres affects ...

A specialist vacuum is being used to collect smaller plastic nurdles strewn across Norfolk's beaches. A "retrieval operation" is under way following the crash on 10 March, the coastguard says.

The new technique is safer, cheaper, and more sustainable. In a groundbreaking development that could help address the global plastic crisis, scientists have unveiled a new method to break down ...