Humans pollute over 10 million tons of plastic trash into oceans every year. It's estimated that by 2030 that figure could reach 60 million.

PLASTIC na itatapon mo, ibigay sa amin—para makinabang tayo at kalikasan ay ating alagaan [The plastic you will throw, please give to us—so we can all benefit while caring for nature].

The following fundamentals provide some perspective about when and where to employ soft plastics along with which lure styles might be best for certain situations. These rules are not hard and fast.

Biobased plastics may not be the first thing that comes to mind when discussing the bioeconomy. However, detaching our economy from fossil fuels won’t happen if we don’t develop alternative ...

PAITA, Peru—For three decades, Francisco Chiroque’s livelihood has depended on the jumbo squid that flourish off this country’s Pacific coast in one of the world’s richest fishing grounds.

Hong Kong will not set a “hard deadline” for the second phase of its disposable plastics ban, having learned from the resistance to a proposed waste tax, the city’s minister for the ...

Tucked into a green-sounding federal recycling bill filed last month is a wish list, not of tough new mandates to get a handle on the world’s plastic’s crisis, but of regulatory rollbacks and ...

Plastic Waste in the Environment. This topic will focus on methods to reduce leakage, facilitate re-capture, and prevent waste from contaminating land and waterways, including approaches to prevent ...

In open water, I could set the autopilot to keep the boat going in the right direction, which isn't possible on the French waterways, where I'd probably bump into other boats or docks. After a few ...

The wind was howling and water was rising when the power cut off at Impact Plastics in Erwin, Tennessee. It was 10:39 a.m. Sept. 27, and employees, who were already nervous, began to panic.

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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 ...