Marine plastic litter tends to grab headlines, with images of suffocating seabirds or bottles washing up along coastlines. Increasingly, researchers have been finding tiny microplastic fragments ...

A new study shines a light on the enormous scale of uncollected rubbish and open burning of plastic waste in the first ever global plastics pollution inventory. Researchers used A.I. to model waste ...

Efforts are underway to tackle a plastic pollution incident at a protected coastal site. Specialist clean-up teams have returned to Rye Harbour Nature Reserve to continue removing bio-beads—small ...