The SSPP Challenge drives innovation in sustainable plastics, aiming to reduce plastic waste and improve recycling rates ...

Correspondence from the Western Region At a time when plastic waste continues to choke cities and waterways, a new initiative ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Within 15 years, a garbage truck’s worth of plastic could be entering our environment every second. Not every ...

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 ...

The Lancet: Plastic pollution is an underrecognised threat to health, experts warn as they launch a project to track plastics’ health impacts and monitor progress Ahead of the expected finalisation of ...

A new study shines a light on the enormous scale of uncollected rubbish and open burning of plastic waste in the first ever global plastics pollution inventory. Researchers used A.I. to model waste ...

Costas Velis is actively involved in the waste, resources and circular economy sector in research, advising, scholarship and consultancy capacities. He is affiliated with University of Leeds and ...

The surging tide of microplastics is already an environmental and health threat, but as the world heats up — driving increasingly extreme weather — it’s transforming them into “more mobile, persistent ...

An estimated 52 million metric tons of plastic is spilling uncontrolled into the environment every year, according to a new study (Nature 2024, DOI: 10.1038/s41586-024-07758-6). By weight, 43% of this ...

University of Portsmouth provides funding as a member of The Conversation UK. Thousands of tonnes of plastic pollution could be escaping into the environment every year … from our mouths. Most chewing ...