Plastic is one of humanity's most useful inventions... and one of its most persistent problems. Plastic has become so ingrained in modern life that it's easy to forget how long it lingers once tossed ...

Hiking through Bear Mountain State Park in New York, the Rutgers chemist saw plastic bottles scattered along the path and ...

Plastic is everywhere in modern society. While it has paved the way for enormous progress, the pollution it leaves behind is ...

Plastic pollution is not just in oceans and soil. Scientists have now found enormous amounts of microscopic plastic floating ...