For decades, plastic has been designed to last, not to leave. The result is a planet laced with microplastics that persist in ...

WAKO, Japan (Reuters) -Researchers in Japan have developed a plastic that dissolves in seawater within hours, offering up a potential solution for a modern-day scourge polluting oceans and harming ...

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 ...

Plastic litter recovery from rivers is a rather understudied topic in Japan. To tackle this knowledge gap, researchers conducted an in-depth analysis of plastic removal from over 100 important river ...

CHIGASAKI, Japan (Reuters) - 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 ...

Japanese retailers including supermarkets and convenience stores will be required to charge for plastic bags from next summer ahead of the Tokyo Olympics, a government panel agreed Friday. The move ...

Negotiations on a new Global Plastics Treaty will hold a second session on May 29 to June 2 in Paris, France. In the first meeting in Uruguay, there was hope that a strong, ambitious treaty would end ...

PureCycle Technologies Inc., Orlando, Florida, and Mitsui & Co. Ltd., a Tokyo-based global trading and investment company, have announced plans to develop and operate a polypropylene (PP) recycling ...

YOKOTA AIR BASE, Japan — Nearly three dozen patients were treated through a program that brought a plastic surgeon to this airlift hub in western Tokyo for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic.