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Rivers carry plastic across continents, so scientists tracked its movement across continents too. A sweeping new UC Santa Barbara-led study spanning four continents and eight countries has amassed one ...

Plastic pollution is one of the biggest environmental challenges of our time, but researchers at Northwestern University may have found a new solution. Their newly developed method can break down ...

Microplastics are ubiquitous. Though you can’t see them with the naked eye, they’re found almost everywhere — in our food, our cleaning supplies and cosmetics, our water, the air we breathe — and ...

Welcome to Plastic-Free Kitchen Week on the Strategist, where we’ve been obsessively researching and testing plastic alternatives — for everything from appliances to cleaning supplies to cookware. For ...

Remember the movement to eliminate plastic straws? While it hasn’t solved our massive plastic problem, it was a major stepping stone to changing the way the public thinks about single-use items. And ...

More than 400 million metric tons of plastic is produced annually, and only a small fraction is recycled. The rest ends up in landfills, or leaks into the natural environment, which is impacting ...

Community-led research from UCSB’s Benioff Ocean Science Laboratory spans three years, four continents and eight countries to reveal the scale of river plastic waste and offer solutions to stop it at ...