Previous research found that insects can ingest and absorb pure, unrefined microplastics -- but only under unrealistic, food-scarce situations. Zoologists have now tested mealworms in a more realistic ...

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on November 21 published the National Strategy to Prevent Plastic Pollution (the Strategy). Through ...

Ford County, Kansas, seeks damages, cleanup and abatement services from the companies. But defendant and trade association American Chemistry Council called the county’s claims “meritless.” ...

Mealworms take 138 days to eat one disposable mask, research shows Insects consume plastics like polypropylene without ...

The climate crisis is not a distant threat; it's happening right now and affecting what matters most to us. Hurricanes ...

Fossil fuels have kicked the Global Plastics Treaty down the road. The next session must drown out their schemes by heeding ...

We should ask ourselves how we would structure the value chain today if we were starting from scratch, rather than how we can ...

After two years of dedicated negotiations, world leaders could not agree on a global plastics treaty to counter plastic ...

Countries negotiating a global treaty to address plastic pollution have failed to reach an agreement in Busan.

The Bureau of International Recycling (BIR) is disappointed over the lack of a formal agreement after the latest round of ...

Coke is also changing its recycling goal. In 2018, Coca-Cola announced that by 2030 it wanted to recycle the plastic equivalent of every bottle it put out into the world. That’s been reduced to ...

In a new study, UBC zoologist Dr. Michelle Tseng and alumna Shim Gicole quantified the ability of mealworms (Coleoptera: ...