A report assessing state policies on plastics comes just weeks before negotiators meet to attempt to finalize a global treaty on plastic waste.

Researchers have turned food waste into biodegradable plastic, offering a promising new path to fight both food and plastic ...

To address these questions, a research team from Mansoura University, the Agricultural Research Center, and the University of ...

Scientists are working with microbes found in Australia's unique ecosystem to create bioplastics which break down in land, ...

Since 2019, the 191 countries that are party to an international agreement called the Basel Convention have agreed to classify mixed plastic trash as “hazardous waste.” This designation essentially ...

The SM Group is strengthening its commitment to reduce plastic waste, treating it as a shared responsibility across all its ...

Varying approaches to waste definition and management have made it a challenge to track what happens to the waste we recycle.

Researchers say just four policies could cut plastic pollution 90 percent by 2050. With no action, plastic waste could nearly double.

A new study determines that just four policies can reduce mismanaged plastic waste -- plastic that isn't recycled or properly disposed of and ends up as pollution -- by 91% and plastic ...

Why compostable plastic is not a silver bullet for eliminating plastic waste There might be a simpler way to combat the global plastics use problem.

ByFusion takes plastic waste and uses steam and compression to churn out 22-pound, construction-grade building blocks, called ByBlocks. They fit together using interlocking pegs.

The new U.S. strategy to combat plastics waste covers five areas: plastic production, product design, waste generation, waste management and plastic capture and removal.