With the right technologies and public sector support, we can turn the very waste polluting our rivers and bodies into a resource that fuels sustainable industry.

Oceans and their ecosystems are suffering from tons of plastic pollution that takes decades to degrade.

A woefully small amount of plastic waste is currently recycled. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency puts the recycling rate in this country at just 9 percent.

Plastic waste is everywhere. Each year, around 400 million metric tons of it end up in landfills and places like oceans, rivers and shorelines. The trash breaks down into tiny pieces called ...

The world produces around 250 million tons of plastic waste in municipalities in one year — plastic bottles, cigarette butts, plastic packaging and much more.

“Most waste pickers, however, only collect the valuable materials, such as metal or plastic PET bottles (which they sell on to aggregators, who act as middlemen that then sell to the recyclers).

Collectively, the “waste sponge” countries account for 66.86 days out of the total 157 days of plastic overshoot projected to occur in 2023.

HOUSTON, Tex.—When the news crew showed up outside a waste-handling business that's failed three fire safety inspections and has yet to gain state approval to store plastic, workers quickly ...

The world dumps 2,000 truckloads of plastic into the ocean each day. Here’s where a lot of it ends up Photographs and video by Edu Ponces/RUIDO Photo Story by Angela Dewan, CNN Published April ...

About 48 million tons of plastic waste are generated each year in the U.S., and very little of it is ever recycled. The city of Houston says it has an innovative new program that can recycle any ...