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

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

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

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

Divers off the coast of Kovalam, India, who were looking for an adventure found a disaster instead, according to The New ...

Plastic has become deeply embedded in our modern lives. From packaging to electronics and even medicine, it is so widely used ...

Though most environmental protection projects are launched by government and NGOs, private companies with business goals are ...

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 ...

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

Scientists have figured out how to turn plastic waste into the painkiller acetaminophen using specially engineered bacteria.