Community-led research from UCSB’s Benioff Ocean Science Laboratory spans three years, four continents and eight countries to reveal the scale of river plastic waste and offer solutions to stop it at ...

People in low-income urban communities in the Global South without access to reliable energy sources are burning the toxic ...

While a common family of bacteria, Comamonadaceae, grow on plastics in urban rivers and wastewater systems, it was unclear how these bacteria interact with and break down plastic. Professor Ludmilla ...

Cutting-edge South Korean waste-to-fuel technology transforms cruise plastic waste into usable energy FORT LEE, NJ, ...

Domestic plastic burning is prevalent in cities around the world, fuelled by poor waste management, survey finds.

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, ...

NDMC Open To Studying Smart Solutions For Doorstep Plastic Waste Collection, Recycling. New Delhi, Jan 8 (IANS) Exploring ...

With 430 million tons of plastic waste generated annually and less than 10% of it recycled, the plastic crisis is out of control. Thankfully, HIRO Technologies is creating a new path forward, powered ...

The practice is ‘much more widespread’ than previously realised, researchers say, with serious environmental impact ...