Plastic Pollution Related Content

Conducting a combination of DNA-like encoding of plastics, a research team discover plastic identification could be a strategy against the pollution crisis.

COP27 could be a perfect opportunity for new Prime Minister Rishi Sunak to ban microplastics in everyday products by changing manufacturing laws.

The UK has begun a legally-binding global treaty involving businesses, environmental groups, and more, aiming to end plastic pollution by 2040.

Denmark’s Ministry of Environment is leading the nation’s efforts on climate change mitigation and developing a circular economy.

Plastic pollution has been an issue since the 1960s, but when mask-wearing, single-use plastics and hand sanitiser bottles became the norm, things only got worse.

Dyl Kurpil explains the value of a littering heat map in creating a proactive, intelligence-driven anti-litter strategy.

Plastic waste and single-use plastic is a significant environmental, climate, and global health challenge – and it only seems to be getting worse.

The world's first eco-friendly filter has been developed that can remove micro-to-nano-sized microplastics in water.

Researchers have invented a light-activated fish robot that "swims" around quickly and removes microplastics from the water.

Advanced or chemical recycling, has been incentivised by State laws in the US - but environmental advocates suggest it will only further plastic pollution.

Plastic bottles take up to 450 years to biodegrade naturally, so recycling them quickly is crucial for the environment - Northwestern University chemists may have a new strategy.

Microplastics carrying pathogens into the ocean via land based parasites are affecting wildlife and human health.

Fast fashion culture, though widely disapproved of, is still on the rise as social media companies use it as a marketing ploy for adolescents.

Researchers looking at plastics’ connection with pregnancy and children's health, find that placenta can absorb nanoplastics during pregnancy, affecting babies when born.

Plastic has been found everywhere, from plastic pollution in the oceans, to microplastics in food – researchers have now located nanoplastic particles in the snow.

Geovation has launched a national challenge, to award £5000 to find a sustainable solution in tackling coastal pollution.

A new policy tool developed by scientists, ‘Plastic Drawdown’, can help governments to radically cut plastic waste by 2030.

Differentiating between numerous plastic types and separating them according to their chemical composition could increase the rate of plastic recycling enormously.

Pamela Lein, University of California, Davis, explains nurdles - tiny building blocks of consumer plastics & growing environmental threat

New research provides a model of the global scale of plastic development, tracing where it’s produced, where it ends up, and its environmental impact.