The Lancet: Plastic pollution is an underrecognised threat to health, experts warn as they launch a project to track plastics’ health impacts and monitor progress Ahead of the expected finalisation of ...

Ahead of the expected finalization of a UN global plastics treaty, a group of international experts calls for a greater focus on health impacts when considering plastic pollution. The Health Policy ...

Community-led research from UCSB’s Benioff Ocean Science Laboratory spans three years, four continents and eight countries to reveal the scale of river plastic waste and offer solutions to stop it at ...

Thousands of teenagers across Europe have tracked plastic pollution in rivers, and the data they collected is starting to make waves.By Tom CassauwersAlong a small stream in Spain, groups of teenagers ...

Within 15 years, a garbage truck’s worth of plastic could be entering our environment every second. Not every minute. Every second. Plastic is everywhere in modern life and has essential, lifesaving ...

We have used machine learning to identify the biggest plastic pollution hotspots across more than 50,000 towns, cities and rural areas worldwide. Our new global model reveals the most detailed picture ...

Plastics have been integral to modern life since the 1950s, but their proliferation has resulted in severe marine pollution, jeopardizing the health of ocean ecosystems 1. According to related ...

A new study shines a light on the enormous scale of uncollected rubbish and open burning of plastic waste in the first ever global plastics pollution inventory. Researchers used A.I. to model waste ...

Fig. 2: Macroplastic emissions into the environment (debris and open burned plastic) in Mt year −1 for the year 2020. Flexible plastic debris has a higher probability of being emitted into the ...

An estimated 52 million metric tons of plastic is spilling uncontrolled into the environment every year, according to a new study (Nature 2024, DOI: 10.1038/s41586-024-07758-6). By weight, 43% of this ...

Plastic may well be a useful everyday item, but its careless disposal in oceans and inland waterways is a pressing global problem. Plastic pollution poses a significant threat to human health and the ...

Bangladesh generates around 87,000 tons of single-use plastics annually, of which 96% are directly discarded as garbage. Due to lack of awareness, many people dump plastic waste at convenience, which ...