Recycle, burn or ban. Much plastic waste ends up in landfills (or the ocean), but there are better solutions.One is recycling. One promising finding from our study is that people in Trinidad and ...

And now for the first time, thanks to a new research tool, we can measure exactly how much improving plastic waste management is reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Here’s how.

Scientists have developed a framework for measuring plastic emissions akin to the global standard for measuring greenhouse gas emissions. The approach boosts identification of the biggest ...

Now residents can help measure the river's waste, in a new effort by towns and cities along the Mississippi to quantify the scope of plastic pollution entering the country's second longest waterway.