When it comes to plastic wrapping on food, your first instinct may be that it should be reduced a much as possible, but it ...

The U.S. generates the most plastic waste in the world, producing 35.7 million tons in 2018. A new poll found 55 percent of Americans agree that single-use plastics should be banned. The federal ...

(Bloomberg) -- The final round of United Nations-brokered talks aimed at tackling plastic pollution opened in South Korea with deep divisions over the need to stem the rising flood of the material, a ...

The use of plastic shopping bags has dropped by 50 percent after the government banned their free distribution, Environment ...

California shoppers will have one less decision to make at the checkout counter starting Jan. 1, as the state enacts a ban on ...

People who drink bottled water every day ingest 90,000 more microplastic particles per year than people who drink tap water, ...

With its production continuing to increase at an exponential rate, our problem with plastic pollution is showing no sign of slowing down. A new study mapping mapping the movement of plastic waste has ...

Restaurants and other businesses are scrambling to survive. We’re recovering from a record-breaking forest fire season and looking at more of the same. Suicide rates continue rising. Children are ...

Fazal Rabbi, a local shopkeeper, has taken an unusual step by completely banning plastic shopping bags from his store, ...

Selecting one kind of plastic over another is often used to accomplish this goal. However, to date, no material selection framework has considered or quantified environmental persistence, or the time ...

We all agree we must solve the issue of plastic waste in the environment. According to a Harris poll from this spring, more than eight in 10 U.S. adults are concerned about the impact companies have ...