Could a simple chemistry idea end plastic pollution? Discover how scientists created programmable plastics that degrade on a ...
India tackles its plastic waste problem with advanced chemical recycling technologies, spearheaded by PolyCycl's innovative ...
Increased toxicity from plastic pollution in a warmer climate is highly likely to be affecting whole ecosystems, with potentially disproportionate impacts on apex predators such as orcas. A new review ...
Bangladesh generates around 87,000 tons of single-use plastics annually, of which 96% are directly discarded as garbage. Due to lack of awareness, many people dump plastic waste at convenience, which ...
In the Maldives, smuggling of cigarettes and vapes has surged to the point where the illicit tobacco trade now exceeds legally imported, duty-paid products. According to Tobacco Reporter, Maldivian ...
Climate change conditions turn plastics into more mobile, persistent, and hazardous pollutants. This is done by speeding up plastic breakdown into microplastics—microscopic fragments of ...
The surging tide of microplastics is already an environmental and health threat, but as the world heats up — driving increasingly extreme weather — it’s transforming them into “more mobile, persistent ...
Of the numerous anthropogenic pressures that are being exerted on ecosystems globally, plastic pollution and climate change are potentially the most pressing. This is particularly true when they ...
Our oceans have been experiencing a plastic crisis for decades. We have now reached a pivotal moment in ocean pollution, where the numbers are no longer abstract and time is running out to make an ...
The fossil-fuel industry is pivoting to plastics: massive companies are launching new refineries and other industrial plants to make plastic from petrochemicals. Science journalist Beth Gardiner ...
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Bangladesh, in collaboration with Chattogram City Corporation (CCC), organised an awareness campaign today at Patenga Sea Beach, urging citizens to take ...