Plastic containers will typically have numbers on the bottom that denote which kind of plastic it is. For example, #1 and #2 plastics are almost always recyclable, while #6 plastics aren't always ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Los Angeles County is taking on Pepsi and Coke for their role in plastic pollution. In a lawsuit filed ...

The growing scourge of plastic pollution: in numbers Nations could agree in December on a world-first treaty to reduce the amount of plastic leaking into the environment which, if nothing is done, is ...

Dr Costas Velis from the University of Leeds said the number was "staggering ... it would cover the area of the UK 1.5 times. "It's complex [to calculate] becayse plastic is everywhere and ...

Most plastics are labelled with a number which allows you to work out whether it contains BPA. The number is inside the triangular recycling mark. 1, 2, 4 or 5 means the plastic is BPA free.

And of that waste, a staggering 6.3 billion tons never made it to a recycling bin—a figure that stunned the scientists who crunched the numbers in 2017. No one knows how much unrecycled plastic ...

His first number one – “Roses Are Red (My Love ... sounds like it could have been played on a child’s plastic keyboard. More ...

And rats, a number of rodent studies have ... they can be tough to avoid. That’s why one of the study authors has pointed to the Global Plastic Treaty negotiations that will occur among ...

But there is one thing that goes beyond misinformation ... Just for fun, I counted the number of plastic things I had to open to make a simple fish sandwich. First, the bag of frozen fish filets ...

Nations could agree in December on a world-first treaty to reduce the amount of plastic leaking into the environment which, ...

By 2060, if left unchecked, that figure will have almost tripled to 1.2 billion tons, according to the OECD. The growth in plastic production has mainly occurred in the United States, the Middle ...