In the late 1940s, following wartime-driven innovation, the mass production of inexpensive plastics revolutionized American ...

The rapid accumulation of plastic waste is currently posing significant risks for both human health and the environment on ...

A plastic fishing line might take 600 years to break down in nature or a landfill. A plastic bottle might take 450 years. Dental floss might take decades. But in a Harvard lab, a recently discovered ...

Discover which countries are responsible for the most plastic waste that ends up on beaches and coasts around the world Take a walk along any beach in the world and you’re likely to find some sort of ...

Plastic is now becoming as much of a problem as it has been a solution. Some say the global plastic waste crisis has reached a critical tipping point, that the oceans are swimming with microplastics, ...

Since 1950, humanity has produced more than 8.3 billion metric tons of plastic. Most has ended up in landfills or the environment. Now, scientists are working on biological solutions to address the ...

Scientists now estimate that around 8M tons of plastic waste pour into the ocean every year, forming swirling gyres of debris ...

Litter, much of it plastic, dots a beach in Santa Monica, CA, the morning after a beach cleanup. Rafeed Hussain / Ocean Conservancy A new study finds the United States may be responsible for as much ...

Zero Waste Humboldt will honor several local businesses and organizations at “Zero Heroes Night,” a virtual celebration set for Nov. 15 at 7 p.m. The public is invited. For nearly a decade, Zero Waste ...

For those of you over a certain age, you may remember this now famous line from the movie, The Graduate, delivered by the character Mr. McGuire to Benjamin Braddock, played by the actor Justin Hoffman ...