There is a staggering amount of plastic waste — an estimated 2.6 million tons — floating around our oceans right now. India’s government recently took steps to curb the ever-worsening plastic waste ...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Plastic soy sauce bottles shaped like fish are tiny, cute and beloved by many sushi eaters. But in the state of South Australia, the decorative containers swam into a ...

This article originally appeared on The Revelator. Each year the amount of plastic swirling in ocean gyres and surfing the tide toward coastal beaches seems to increase. So too does the amount of ...

An Australian state has banned plastic fish-shaped soy sauce containers, reeling in a sushi lovers' favourite that is washing up in drains and beaches. South Australia is the first state in the ...

For as long as I can remember, I and everyone else I know have been cutting up those plastic rings that hold six-packs together, supposedly to protect fish and wildlife. Recently, I heard some barroom ...

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A persistent claim shared by high-profile sources such as the United Nations, (archived) (archived) World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) (archived) says ...

Plastic pollution has become one of the major global environmental challenges of the century; projections show that by 2050 the oceans may have more plastic than fish. Nuclear technology has emerged ...

April 5 (UPI) --Scientists have developed a new method for making environmentally friendly plastic out of fish waste -- the heads, bones, skin and guts that get thrown away during processing.