By Mike DiGirolamo Judith Enck is a former regional administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, appointed by ...

SANTA BARBARA, Calif (June 20, 2024) – Plastic is everywhere – more than 10 million metric tons of plastics enter the ocean each year, and the United States is ...

Within 15 years, a garbage truck's worth of plastic could be entering our environment every second. Not every minute. Every second.

The plastics industry says there is a way to help solve the crisis of plastic waste plaguing the planet's oceans, beaches and lands— recycle it, chemically. Chemical recycling typically uses heat or ...

Press releases are posted on Independent.com as a free community service. SANTA BARBARA, Calif (June 30, 2023) – More than 10 million metric tons of plastics enter ...

The good news about plastic pollution is that public awareness has become widespread of the gravity and harm of pollution by this now-ubiquitous manmade material. As a result, most people want to see ...

To reduce trash, some states want to charge companies whose packaging isn’t recyclable. Nashville is growing – and so are its piles of trash. The Middle Point Landfill, in nearby Murfreesboro, ...

Genetically engineered bacteria can not only degrade plastic waste, but they can convert it into valuable industrial chemicals. There are still unknowns -- for example, how to do this at scale and how ...

Community-led research from UCSB’s Benioff Ocean Science Laboratory spans three years, four continents and eight countries to reveal the scale of river plastic waste and offer solutions to stop it at ...

The ocean, vast and seemingly infinite, has been humanity's dumping ground for plastic waste. With 171 trillion pieces of plastic amounting to 1 million to 1.7 million tons currently floating in it, ...

William Wordsworth, the poet who believed nature to be humanity's greatest teacher, once wrote that a single impulse from the ...

“During their long journey to Ogasawara Islands, the green turtles are likely to ingest and accumulate plastic distributed ...