Wintering gulls at a protected lake in southern Spain are depositing an estimated 530 kg of plastic into the wetland each ...
MIT researchers have identified how communities of ocean bacteria cooperate to decompose biodegradable plastics, a finding ...
Hundreds of millions of tons of plastic are produced globally every year. New research shows how that waste can be turned ...
Microplastics are everywhere, which makes studying them all the more difficult. Labs are doing all they can to be ...
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 ...
Just for a minute, think about how much of the plastic you use today will end up as trash. Drink bottles? Grocery bags? Food wrappers? If you live in the United States, it’ll probably add up to about ...
New report by WWF and Ellen MacArthur Foundation analyses how to make the global plastic pollution treaty work for micro-, small-, and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs). The report also makes ...
Rivers carry plastic across continents, so scientists tracked its movement across continents too. A sweeping new UC Santa Barbara-led study spanning four continents and eight countries has amassed one ...
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