Plastic trash is now so ubiquitous that researchers have found hundreds of tons of it floating in the Arctic Ocean. It may not sound like much, but it's a surprising amount given the area's sparse ...

Fire crews with Sedgwick County Fire District 1 and the City of Wichita Fire Department responded to a call for fire at CDR ...

FILE - In this March 12, 2018, file photo, Skagit County Solid Waste Division manager Margo Gillaspy displays some of the recyclable plastic items that had been deposited at the Skagit County Transfer ...

The western coast of Java in Indonesia is popular with surfers for its world-famous breaks. There’s a majestic underwater world to explore, too. But it’s impossible to surf or snorkel without running ...

Piece by piece, an environmental threat is piling up, and we’re ALL to blame. Worse yet, even those of us trying to bring an end to the problem may not be doing as much good as we think. David Pogue ...

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Every day, it seems like another company is announcing that it's taking up the fight on plastic pollution. Just the other day, the world's largest seafood restaurant company, Red Lobster, announced it ...

China and other SE Asian countries have become a dumping ground for waste from all over the world. Japan for all the good that it has here, is a country, in general, that produces an awful lot of ...

PORTLAND, Maine — China’s decision to stop accepting plastic waste from other countries is causing plastic to pile up around the globe, and wealthy countries must find a way to slow the accumulation ...

More than 37 million pieces of plastic debris have accumulated on a remote island in the South Pacific, thousands of miles from the nearest city, according to estimates from researchers who documented ...

Paper and plastic are piling up at recycling centers across Oregon in the wake of China’s refusal to take them. Already, the state has given a dozen recyclers permission to send the materials to ...