- Nina Gomes recovers a discarded plastic bag from ocean waters, near Copacabana beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, March 19, ...

On a Philippines beach, barefoot children jumped and played on shoals of plastic washed ashore in previous typhoons.

And in a New Delhi shanty town, with seemingly every inch of the landscape choked with plastic waste, bags awaited sorting by ...

By 2050, the world is expected to generate more than enough plastic pollution to cover the entire island of Manhattan with a ...

With negotiations underway for a global plastics treaty, business leaders and scientists explain how we can stop the plastic waste polluting our oceans.

New York City is now requiring some residents place their trash into garbage bins for pickup. Earlier this month, people living in residences with less than 10 units were required to use a trash bin ...

Policies aimed at curbing the use of single-use plastic bags have sometimes accomplished the opposite of their intentions, a ...

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