In the plastic recycling industry, the casualties keep coming. Waste management company Biffa's Sunderland plant closed in ...

Just 9% of plastic worldwide is recycled. Due to waste mismanagement, nearly three-quarters ends up in landfills or the environment. So how can plastic recycling be more efficient? A review article by ...

The world’s plastic crisis isn’t simply environmental; it’s existential. A recent study in the journal Nature Medicine found that brain samples contained 10 times more microplastics (equivalent to a ...

People walking the streets of downtown Petaluma, California, started seeing something new on the sidewalks in summer. Alongside the usual trash cans and recycling containers were large purple bins ...

Our ability to survive on the only known habitable planet has always involved adaptation and innovation. Carbon emissions and plastics, while central to our current way of life, have detrimental ...

July 29 - In the theatre of global self-destruction, few spectacles rival the plastic paradox: nations drowning in toxic chemicals of their own making, like alchemists poisoning themselves with their ...

Microplastics, tiny plastic fragments less than five millimeters in diameter, have infiltrated nearly every corner of modern life. From the air we breathe to the water we drink and the food we consume ...

In the plastic recycling industry, the casualties keep coming. Waste management company Biffa's Sunderland plant closed in February after opening in 2022 at a cost of £7m, while rival Viridor closed ...