Recycling plastic can be confusing, as not all recycling facilities accept the same materials. In Monroe County, our recyclables are processed at Reuter’s Recycling Facility, which does not accept ...

Plastics revolutionized medicine. But what we once saw as miraculous has now become a silent threat—one we can no longer ...

Scientists have captured photos of litter at the bottom of the Calypso Deep, a trench 16,771ft (5,112m) below the surface of ...

Microplastics have been found almost everywhere that scientists have looked for them. Now these bits of plastic -- from 1 to 62 micrometers long -- have been found in the filtered solutions used for ...

Microplastics have been found almost everywhere that scientists have looked for them. Now, according to research published in Environment & Health, these bits of plastic—from 1 to 62 micrometers ...