Environment From plastic trash to treasured art: Five artists invite us to rethink our relationship with plastic Five new works commissioned by Canadian Geographic offer eye-catching and compelling ...

For years scientists have been trying to figure out how much plastic trash may be adrift in the planet's oceans, but new research suggests they may have drastically underestimated the problem.

Plastic is a material that, without exaggeration, has radically changed our planet. Convenient and cheap, once a helper, it has now become a major threat to the ecosystem.

A sperm whale that stranded and then died on a beach in Scotland had 100 kilograms of plastic in its stomach, including nets, cups, bags and other trash.

The results are in from PortsToronto and the University of Toronto Trash Team about how much plastic pollution was diverted from the Toronto Harbour last year, and the findings were, well, garbage ...

An advertisement for the 1994 World Cup, fast food wrappers, COVID-19 masks—what birds used to build their nests reflects a world with more plastic. A coot bird in London on a nest made of twigs ...

While the map shows only sampled surface concentrations of 442 sites, the above numbers give an rough idea of how much plastic might be in our oceans. Total ocean plastic could number anywhere ...

The science of turning plastic trash into fabric was developed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2021 and has now become mainstream. You can buy fleeces made from 100% recycled ...

For one in three U.S. residents, single-use plastic bags are no longer a cheap and easy ubiquity—and beaches, riverbanks and lakeshores are benefitting. That’s according to research published ...