Every year, companies produce more than 400 million metric tons of plastic. Some of that plastic spills onto waterways or beaches, clogging streams or floating in huge gyres in the ocean.

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The researchers concluded that for every percentage increase in plastic produced, there was an equivalent increase in plastic pollution in the environment. “Production really is pollution,” sa ...

There are nearly 100 municipalities in St. Louis County. The largest one, in terms of land covered, is nearly triple the size of all of the county’s counterparts individually. According to the U ...

“The size of the prize is significant.” In his first week on the job, Shaw already sounds like an old hand. He knows how to run trade associations, having done so with the Manitoba Trucking ...

The largest is the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, estimated to be three times the size of France. CleanHub says there are global efforts being made to reduce ocean-bound plastic, including the High Seas ...

Many small food and drink outlets in popular Hong Kong tourist areas made use of a six-month grace period and continued to hand out plastic utensils and cutlery on Monday, with some finding paper ...

One focus of Goldberg’s research is understanding the fundamentals of recycling carbon-based products. One carbon-based product, plastic, leads to massive amounts of waste, often causing environmental ...

The researchers, Nihan Karali, Nina Khanna, and Nihar Shah, focused on nine types of plastic made from fossil fuels that together represent about 80% of global production. They include low-density ...

China’s thirsty data centres and the rapid growth of artificial intelligence (AI) could dramatically increase demand on the country’s water resources, according to a new report by think tank ...

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For more than five years, citizen scientists in dozens of countries combed beaches, waterways, parks, busy city streets and other public areas in an ambitious bid to quantify the amount of plastic ...