When you outlaw or discourage the sale of plastic bags, fewer of them end up as litter on beaches.

World Environment Day 2025, led by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), has adopted a bold and urgent theme: “Beat Plastic Pollution.” Slated for June 5, 2025, and hosted by the ...

Washing household plastic containers in a dishwasher releases nanoplastic and microplastic pollution into wastewater, University of Queensland researchers have found. Dr. Elvis Okoffo from UQ's ...

The global campaign to gain control of plastic waste is one of the fastest-growing environmental causes ever mounted. Yet it hasn’t been enough to make a dent in the growing tonnage of discarded ...

Plastic pollution is a pressing issue that affects our environment in ways we can't even see! 🌍 Every tiny piece of plastic counts, and it's time to make a change.

Negotiations on the UN plastic treaty will continue this year, but the date and location are still not set. The reelection of Donald J. Trump complicates US involvement in the plastics treaty ...

A group of oil-producing nations blocked a treaty to curb plastic pollution, but countries will try again to reach an agreement in 2025.

The U.S. and 174 other nations failed to agree on a new treaty to reduce the plastic pollution contaminating our environment, food, water, and even our bodies.

“Plastics pollution exacerbates the impacts of all [nine] planetary boundaries,” warns a report published this month in the journal One Earth in the run-up to what could be the final United ...

“It is actually possible to nearly end plastic pollution with this treaty,” Douglas J. McCauley, a professor of ocean science at the University of California, Santa Barbara, said in an email.

On November 21, 2024, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced the release of the National Strategy to Prevent Plastic Pollution: Part Three of a Series on Building a Circular ...

UC Santa Barbara researchers and their colleagues estimate that without intervention, plastic pollution is on track to double by 2050. But in a study published in the journal Science, these same ...