Asia is the continent where the largest number of polluted and polluting rivers are located. On the list of the 50 river basins suffering from the worst conditions, 44 are on the Asian continent with the Philippines, India, Malaysia, China and…

The negative impacts of plastic litter on the environment, on oceans and marine life, and on our health are global and drastic: is the comment of the European Commissioner for the Environment, Oceans and Fisheries, Virginijus Sinkevičius, made last May…

Everyone agrees that the oceans and seas are a fundamental resource for the life of the planet, and plastic can seriously compromise the balance of these ecosystems. Also for this reason, in recent years dozens of countries around the world…

Plastics, a curiosity at the beginning of the century, became ubiquitous by the mid decades, seemingly as essential to our way of life as the very air we breathe: Jeremy Rifkin's phrase well summarizes the role played by this material…