If there's one material that defines modern life more than any other, it's plastic: present from the moment we're born in newborn stool, in product packaging, in the soil beneath our feet and the air ...

The battle against plastics began decades ago. Early on, the focus was on the proliferation of plastic pollution and its impact on land use. In the 1980s, the battle shifted, with local skirmishes ...

Nest researcher Auke-Florian Hiemstra stumbled upon a bird nest that appeared to go back 30 years in time – filled with historical plastics. His discovery of successive layers of plastic in birds’ ...

As recently as the 1960s, perhaps later—within the life span of Tom Hanks, and within a few years of when the world was using its very first ATMs and contraceptive pills—nearly all of the planet’s sea ...

A new anthology on plastics in art reveals the philosophical conundrums and contradictions at the heart of a material the ...

Plastic is a product that is ubiquitous in today's society, says Sarah Morath, Wake Forest professor of law and author of the book "Our Plastic Problem and How to Solve It." The World Bank estimates ...

Does trash belong in a museum? The creators of Archeoplastica think so, saying that displaying a range of plastic trash collected from waterways is a good way to connect with the public and help them ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Author Judith Enck argues it is not too late to reduce the use of plastic, which has surged in the last twenty years (Adnan Beci) ...