TOKYO >> Marine waste that has drifted from other Asian countries is causing problems in prefectures along the Sea of Japan. Intergovernmental negotiations held in Switzerland in August sought to ...

Anyone who has had their heart broken by images of dolphins or sea turtles struggling or even dying because they got tangled up in plastic waste will know exactly why single-use plastics are hated.

Japan has developed a new kind of shopping bag that looks ordinary but behaves very differently from plastic. These bags are made from potato starch, a natural material taken from potatoes. When the ...

Cutinases are fungal enzymes that naturally degrade plant cuticles and show promise for recycling plastics. However, they ...

CHIGASAKI, Japan — Before global leaders take the problem of plastic pollution into their hands this month, Japanese manicurist Naomi Arimoto is putting it into her fingernails. At the beach near her ...

TOKYO -- Japan is poised to clamp down on exports of metal and plastic waste, Nikkei has learned, strengthening government oversight to encourage domestic use and prevent pollution caused by careless ...

P-Life Japan Inc. announced that Keio University researchers identified bacteria capable of bioassimilating plastics treated with its P-Life additive. The findings validate the technology's ability to ...

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It’s easy to see discarded plastic as nothing more than waste. Much of it ends up in landfill, breaking down into ...