Malaysia emerged as a major destination for U.S. waste after China banned American waste imports in 2018. California shipped ...

No country receives more discarded plastic from wealthy countries, but shipments from the United States are no longer welcome ...

Plastic debris is now a troubling reality in oceans and along shorelines worldwide. From tiny microplastics to large waste ...

Amid a global plastic-pollution crisis, artist Erik Jon Olson turns his own plastic waste into quilted works of art in which ...

Microplastics have permeated the region’s food chain, hitting countries like Indonesia and the Philippines the hardest. The programme Insight looks at the health risks and what is being done to boot ...

Malaysia’s actions position it as a potential leader in the ongoing negotiations for a Global Plastics Treaty, due to resume ...

Scientists have engineered bacteria to turn plastic waste into paracetamol, offering a sustainable new path for medicine and ...

Paracetamol (acetaminophen) production could be revolutionized by the discovery that a common bacterium can turn everyday ...

Nigeria’s Minister of Environment, Balarabe Lawal, says that about 14 million tonnes of plastic annually obstruct the world’s ...

It’s been more than a decade since California enacted a soft ban on single-use plastic bags at grocery stores and other ...

A chemical commonly found in sunscreen could be making plastic in oceans even harder to break down, according to University of Stirling research.

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