On a pristine beach in Gippsland, a team of scientists are dumping plastic rubbish. Their littering is extremely precise. When they're done, 14 squares of trash — each exactly 2 square metres ...

(For the plastic versions, you may not even know they’re made of recycled plastic; many of the more than 200 items tested weren’t labeled as made of recycled materials). “As businesses ...

Although plastic production also increased, the percentage of recycled plastic increased from less than 0.3% in 1980 to nearly 8% in 2010. Additionally, Raymond Najjar, a professor of oceanography ...

A coroner has ordered the disclosure of a Hornchurch man’s government employment records after he died with cancer caused by asbestos inhalation. Dean Hagger, 68, of Adelphi Crescent, died on ...

In 2018, Turner published one of the earliest papers positing that black plastic products were likely regularly being made from recycled electronic waste. The clue was the plastic’s concerning ...

Countries gathered in Colombia to work on a treaty to end plastic pollution must strive for “an ambitious, credible and just” deal that responds to the needs of communities everywhere, including some ...

Electronic waste is already a significant and growing global problem. The vast majority is not recycled, with much of it ending up in landfills, according to an annual United Nations report on e ...

Just nine percent of the world's plastic waste is recycled; 19 percent is burned; and nearly 50 percent ends up in controlled landfills. The remaining 22 percent is abandoned in illegal dumps ...

Prices for recycled high density polyethylene resin pellets have continued to rise slightly in the last quarter of the year. Natural post-consumer pellet prices increased by 2 cents, mixed-colored ...

Polling shows environmental issues are far from the top of voters’ minds this year, and the global plastics crisis rarely gets a mention—unless it’s to defend plastic straws. Nevertheless ...

Rather than focusing on the darker reality, she adopts an optimistic view of nature’s resilience. “Weevil Wander” (2024), mixed media on plastic bottle, 6 x 5 x 7.75 inches “My work touches very ...

Amber, who is married to Arrested Development actor David Cross and shares one daughter with him, doesn't believe that plastic surgery is bad and called it a 'deeply personal choice.' ...