For the gardeners of urban Dhaka, it’s time to prepare for winter flowers. One might say it’s too early, but October is when ...

With emissions spiralling and health impacts mounting, the time for half-measures is over, say experts; India must confront the scale of its plastic pollution Despite ongoing efforts to curb ...

This discount is shown at checkout, if applicable. An estimated 52 million metric tons of plastic is spilling uncontrolled into the environment every year, according to a new study (Nature 2024 ...

India contributes to a fifth of global plastic pollution, a study published in the journal Nature last week found. India burns roughly 5.8 million tonnes (mt) of plastic each year, and releases ...

Now a trade group representing those brands and hundreds more is pressuring regulators to make plastic appear more environmentally friendly, a proposal experts say could worsen a crisis that is ...

In celebration of National Peanut Day on September 13, Planters is launching Special Reserve peanuts. The limited-edition peanuts are specially grown and hand-cooked. Harvested on less than 150 acres ...

Put another way, that’s about 57 million tons (52 million metric tons) of plastic waste that was not properly disposed of—and pieces of it could now be floating in the ocean, sitting at the ...

Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. A new study finds that every year people create 57 million tons of plastic pollution. The material ends up ...

It took a mind-blowing 75,000 pots of plants to make the flower carpet, which is almost the length of a Boeing 737-900 plane, or two tennis courts placed end to end. Singapore’s largest flower ...

During 2020, the world threw away over 250 million tonnes of plastic. A fifth of this plastic pollution was dumped straight into the environment, as many nations struggle to keep up with the mounting ...

Despite the planet’s growing plastic pollution crisis, petroleum-based polymers have become an integral part of modern life. They make cars and airplanes lighter and more energy efficient.

Watch the CBS Reports documentary, "Advanced Recycling: Does Big Plastic's Idea Work?" About 48 million tons of plastic waste are generated each year in the U.S., and very little of it is ever ...