While the U.S. presidential election set for Tuesday may be among one of the most globally anticipated events this month, ...

The lawsuit filed Wednesday alleged PepsiCo and Coca-Cola have misled the public about the recyclability of their plastic ...

Planet or Plastic? is National Geographic’s multiyear effort to raise awareness about the global plastic trash crisis. Come to this page often to learn more, and find out what you can do to ...

Payment professionals expect physical cards to stick around for the foreseeable future, even as mobile wallets gain traction.

Los Angeles County has sued beverage makers PepsiCo and Coca-Cola, accusing them of polluting the most populous U.S. county ...

Scientists have developed a "self-digesting plastic", which, they say, could help reduce pollution. Polyurethane is used in everything from phone cases to trainers, but is tricky to recycle and ...

You see photos of plastic pollution in the ocean, but it can be hard to connect that to the plastic you're buying and using every day. Here are three ways the plastic you throw away can end up in the ...

Among the plastic in your house might be an orange-colored hard laundry detergent bottle and a squeezable clear ketchup bottle. Come recycling day, you might put them on the curb in a blue bin or ...

A rising tide of plastic waste is choking our oceans, threatening fragile ecosystems and killing sea life. While plastic has revolutionised our way of life since it was invented in the 1950s, the ...

Jacob Ingram describes clinging to a roll of plastic tubing after he and several of his coworkers at Tennessee's Impact Plastics were swept up in Helene's flooding. WBIR's Libby Cunningham reports ...

Scientists discovered that bacteria commonly found in wastewater can break down plastic to turn it into a food source, a finding that researchers hope could be a promising answer to combat one of ...

The researchers say that this work demonstrates C. testosteroni’s utility for upcycling PET and PET-derived carbons, which could help reduce plastic pollution in wastewater. The authors acknowledge ...