Plastic Free July.is a global initiative is helping reduce future plastic waste. The award-winning campaign helps people change their behaviors to end plastic waste. Ted Lindner shares ways we can ...

In a new scientific paper, three physicians report that one switch could cut your microplastic intake by about 90% — from 90,000 to 4,000 particles each year.

Ellie Jackson, who lives with her family in Cornwall, Britain, has been working to reduce her plastic use for six years. When her daughter, now 13, was 4, she became concerned about turtles ...

A successful collaboration involving a trio of research institutions has yielded a roadmap toward an economically viable process for using enzymes to recycle plastics.

Scaling up recycling levels could reduce plastic pollution by a further 20%, according to the report. Only around 9% of plastics are recycled globally each year, with the rest ending up in ...

Professor Fay Couceiro leads a team that researches the potential health impacts of microplastics. Not microwaving food in plastic is just one way she reduces her exposure.

As plastic waste piles up in the world’s landfills, sewer systems and oceans, the United Nations has set a goal to reduce plastic pollution by 80 percent by the year 2040. Inger Andersen, head ...

Eating plastic, it’s fantastic! Scientists might have found an unlikely solution to the trash problem choking our planet — a plastic-eating insect, which was described in the journal Nature ...

How to Reduce Your Exposure to Plastic in Food (and Everywhere Else) It's nearly impossible to completely avoid bisphenols and phthalates. But several small, strategic shifts can help.

A 2022 poll found that 88% of people registered to vote in New York are concerned about single-use plastic products and support local and state policies to reduce single-use plastic.