Environmental engineer and National ... plastic waste with being a busy mom trying to raise a family of waste warriors. NAT GEO FAMILY: How do you talk to your kids about plastic pollution?

This story is part of Planet or Plastic?—our multiyear effort to ... Read this story and more in the June 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine. When photographer Mandy Barker returned ...

Read this story and more in the June 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine. On a boat off Costa Rica, a biologist uses pliers from a Swiss army knife to try to extract a plastic straw from a ...

This story is part of Planet or Plastic?—our multiyear effort to ... Read this story and more in the June 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine. If you licked one of these “treats ...

Read this story and more in the June 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine ... “We know enough to act to reduce plastic pollution from entering the oceans, lakes, and rivers.” ...

Read this story and more in the June 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine. It’s hard to get your head around the story of plastic. The facts and figures are so staggering as to seem almost ...

Read this story and more in the June 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine. In a world that can seem overwhelmed by potentially eternal plastic waste, are biodegradables the ultimate solution?

Read this story and more in the June 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine ... of a good intention—the intention to end ocean plastic pollution. In that way it’s less like the Paris ...

The world can adapt to reduce and even eliminate plastic pollution, and this needs to be driven by collaboration between governments, businesses, and consumers. All three have a crucial role to ...

This story appears in the June 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine. After importing nearly half of the planet’s plastic recyclables for three decades, China barred the import of most ...