Four years after Germany phased out light plastic bags, how has the EU addressed plastic waste— and why do single-use items ...

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

It is one of those small irritations that quietly follows people through supermarket aisles. A single cucumber, sealed in ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

Plastic removed from the environment, students made aware, virtuous municipalities, and an increasingly active network of ...