One reason plastic waste persists in the environment is because there’s not much that can eat it. The chemical structure of most polymers is stable and different enough from existing food sources that ...

Mirazur, the biodynamic, Michelin 3-star restaurant on the French Riviera bordering Italy that received the “World’s Best Restaurant” Award from 2019 to 2021, is an inspiration for how to go plastic ...

The classic 1967 film The Graduate is famous for the advice given to the character played by Dustin Hoffman. A middle-aged neighbor sums up an important future with great career prospects in one word: ...

At the start of his third year of graduate school, Kazi Albab Hussain became a father. As a new dad and a PhD student studying environmental nanotechnology, plastic was on his mind. The year before, ...

Currently, the world produces more than 380 million tonnes of plastic a year, with 42 percent of this used for packaging. And the statistics on that plastic post-use are dismal: Only 9 percent of all ...

This story was originally published by Yale Environment 360 and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. As public concern about plastic pollution rises, consumers are reaching ...

Nakuru, Kenya — In the open-air Wakulima Market thin plastic shopping bags have disappeared, banished by Kenya’s national bag ban. Produce sellers in this busy agricultural hub 95 miles northwest of ...

Flying into Abbotsford Airport recently, Chris Bodnar was surprised by the large number of Fraser Valley fields covered by plastic. When he started his organic farm 20 years ago, only a few farmers ...

The Lagos State Government has sealed three supermarkets in the Kosofe area for violating the ban on single-use plastics, as part of its ongoing enforcement against plastic pollution. Commissioner for ...