Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Plastic nurdles at the beach in Sri Lanka. (NurPhoto via Getty Images) Britain has banned everything from plastic straws to ...

Plastic bags tangled in trees. Takeout containers scattered along roadsides. Bottles clogging streams and waterways and washing up on beaches. Across the United States, plastic waste and pollution ...

Microplastics and nanoplastics are so small and lightweight they can be swept into the air, where they may be helping to heat ...

Scientists are exploring a method to convert plastic waste into fuels and valuable chemicals using sunlight, potentially ...

Judith Enck reveals how plastic pollution contributes to poisoned oceans, polluted air, a warming planet, and a rise in ...

Environmental ministers from 95 countries have called for a global treaty to address the planet's plastic pollution problem. As Agence France-Presse reported, and Phys.org shared, the ministers agreed ...

Talks aimed at a global treaty to cut plastic pollution fizzled in Geneva this week, with no agreement to meaningfully reduce the harms to human health and the environment that come with the millions ...

A new report from the Pew Charitable Trusts and its partners predicts that plastic pollution will more than double over the next 15 years — the equivalent of dumping nearly a garbage truck full of ...

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Thousands of tonnes of plastic pollution could be escaping into the environment every year . . . from our mouths. Most chewing gum on sale is made from a variety of oil-based synthetic rubbers—similar ...

Thousands of tons of plastic pollution could be escaping into the environment every year … from our mouths. Most chewing gum ...