Plastic use keeps rising rapidly while recycling struggles. Incineration grows steadily, but it may harm more than help.

So much plastic is discarded around the world that 8.8 million tons end up in the ocean every year, according to a recent analysis of waste disposal in 192 coastal nations, the most comprehensive ...

In a quiet corner of Medina Gounass, on the outskirts of Dakar, Senegal, one man has taken it upon himself to breathe new ...

All five of the Earth's major ocean gyres are inundated with plastic pollution. The largest one has been dubbed the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is a gyre of plastic ...

Most plastic waste, especially polyethylene terephthalate (PET)—which is commonly found in bottles, food containers, and polyester fabrics—doesn’t decompose naturally. While recycling exists ...

But most of that plastic comes from rivers, so it started building solar-powered river cleaners to catch garbage before it goes out to sea. Experts worry the ocean-cleaning machines could harm sea ...