Burning plastic as fuel for cooking and heating releases toxic chemicals into the air and contaminates food. Yet this is ...

Plastic and plastic recycling has been a major global issue for decades, but scientists have found a lot of intriguing ways ...

Efforts to end plastic pollution through bans and treaties aren’t getting anywhere, but the advent of bioplastics offers hope ...

Alexander Clapp’s “Waste Wars” tells the story of how trash from wealthy countries began traveling across borders, aided by shadowy networks of waste traders.

L’Occitane partners with Plastic Odyssey on its global mission to combat plastic pollution and transform waste into building ...

Plastic waste in the developing world — clogging waterways, exacerbating air pollution, infiltrating human brain tissue — is now linked to the death of hundreds of thousands every year.

A Curtin University-led paper, "The Use of Plastic as a Household Fuel among the Urban Poor in the Global South" published in ...

A mortar made from recycled plastic and silica aerogel which improves insulation and reduces plastic waste has been developed ...

Alexander Clapp’s important and courageous book explores the environmental damage unleashed by the west’s offloading of its trash ...

Spain's High Court has found former soccer federation boss Luis Rubiales guilty of sexual assault for kissing player Jenni ...