Most chewing gum on sale is made from a variety of oil-based synthetic rubbers—similar to the plastic material used in car ...

Plans in England to introduce a deposit return scheme have been pushed back to 2027 but one part of the country is leading ...

Thousands of tons of plastic pollution could be escaping into the environment every year … from our mouths. Most chewing gum ...

A new study finds that microplastic pollution reduces plant photosynthesis, threatening global food security and worsening ...

Plastic waste is increasingly causing problems for fishers. Fishnets bring up bottles, propellers get tangled in bags, water ...

A research group led by Prof. DANG Fei from the Institute of Soil Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, in ...

By coring the seabed at 850 m water depth in Disko Bay off Greenland's west coast, researchers from the University of ...

While recycling aims to reduce plastic waste, the practice itself could be making matters worse by producing an even more ...

"Shift into Gear," a new report from SAP and Earth Action, is inciting companies to start preparing now to meet global ...

A study shows chewing gum could release up to 600 microplastic fragments, raising awareness of ingestion and environmental ...

It would appear that plastic bag bans are tailor-made for government intervention. The environmental costs of plastic ...