Plastic accumulating in our oceans and on our beaches has become a global crisis. Billions of pounds of plastic can be found in swirling convergences that make up about 40 percent of the world's ocean ...

Despite bans on single-use plastics, we’re producing more of them than ever, and the situation is only getting worse, an alarming new report has revealed. The Plastic Waste Makers Index from Andrew ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

After you finish your fries, eat the ketchup packet. When you add your pasta to boiling water, toss the bag into the pot, too. If these instructions sound confusing to you, it’s only because you haven ...

An additional six million metric tonnes of single use plastic was created in 2021, compared to 2019. Recycling is failing to scale fast enough and remains a marginal activity for the plastics sector.

The two will work together to quantify the unseen environmental costs of consumption decisions in ways that empower individuals, businesses and governments to align their spending with climate action ...

LONDON, Aug. 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The monthly ICIS Petrochemical Index (IPEX) is recording a collapse in commodity petrochemical and polymer prices worldwide as economic and cost pressures for the ...

Plastic pollution fouls the land too, and the air we breathe. Scientists now say plastic micro-particles literally rain down on us, introducing toxins into our bodies. And if you think recycling is ...

A team of South Korean scientists have produced the polymers used for everyday plastics through bioengineering, rather than through the use of fossil fuel-based chemicals. It is believed that the ...