But at the end of the growing season, we will be left with a heap of used and useless plastic. We will return to the fields and slice the rows down the center, gripping one flap at a time and ...

A worker moves piles of plastic foam boxes and waste at a facility that stores recyclable materials in Suwon, south of Seoul, on April 21, 2025, one day ahead of Earth Day. (Yonhap) (END ...

With no action on a global treaty, the study said, the world's increasing plastic production will generate enough trash by 2050 to "cover Manhattan in a heap of plastic ten times the height of the ...

However, the optimized enzyme – that was first discovered in a compost heap of leaves eight years ago – was able to reduce the plastic bottles to simple chemical elements that can be ...

Bans on plastic have become one attempt at addressing the problem. Seattle is one of the first major American cities to ban single-use plastics. Nawaz visits a compost heap, a noisy and busy ...

“But what this study shows you is that fresh waters, including lakes and reservoirs, are important conduits of plastic.” The team behind the study placed surface nets on lakes around the ...

COUNTRYFILE presenter Tom Heap dug deep into a new investigation about finding plastic in animal food during tonight’s edition of the BBC documentary series, and many viewers were “disgusted ...

Plastic waste at a landfill on the outskirts of Bengaluru in November this year With 5.7 lakh tonnes per annum, state generates 13.53% of total plastic waste now; plastic items are still in use ...

By continuing with business as usual, the world would generate enough litter between 2011 and 2050 to cover Manhattan in a heap of plastic ten times the height of the Empire State Building.

Plastic bags and packaging being labelled as ‘compostable’ can’t actually go in your home compost bin, a minister has admitted. It follows the Big Compost Experiment which found that 60% of ...