Recent Contributions

• U.S. recycling industry struggles to figure out a future without China
• Plastics or people? At least 1 of them has to change to clean up our mess
• Plastic has a big carbon footprint -- but that isn't the whole story
• Replacing plastic: Can bacteria help us break the habit?
• Microplastics have invaded the deep ocean -- and the food chain
• The 'Great Dying' nearly erased life on Earth. Scientists see similarities to today
• Remote island chain has few people -- but hundreds of millions of pieces of plastic
• Denisovans, a little-known kind of ancient humans, are traced to Tibet
• Microplastic found even in the air in France's Pyrenees mountains
• Dozens of nonnative marine species have invaded the Galapagos Islands