They were a new geological phenomenon formed by the combination of natural rock-forming processes and plastic debris, particularly fishing nets and oceanic trash. This realization led Santos to an ...

Johnsonville made the fourth not-food-in-your-food recall in the last 10 days because, of all the things that go into sausage, plastic shouldn’t be among the ingredients list. So, the Chicago ...

ROCK ISLAND, Ill. — A Rock Island eighth grader is working to make April 1 'Skip the Plastic Day' in Illinois. It's a movement to encourage residents, businesses and visitors to limit their ...

This created CK Hutchison, one of Asia's largest conglomerates with a global presence. CK Hutchison has interests in every continent and operates in more than 50 countries, employing more than ...

So geologist Fernanda Avelar Santos was startled to find an unsettling sign of human impact on the otherwise untouched landscape: rocks formed from the glut of plastic pollution floating in the ocean.

University of Portsmouth provides funding as a member of The Conversation UK. Thousands of tonnes of plastic pollution could be escaping into the environment every year … from our mouths.