Plastic pollution has become one of the most pressing environmental issues of our time. With over 300 million tons of plastic produced every year, much of it for single-use purposes, the planet is ...

Plastic waste surrounds daily life, from food containers and grocery bags to shampoo bottles and medical supplies. Much of it ends up buried or drifting into ecosystems because recycling it is slow, ...

MANDAUE City officials are urging government employees and residents to cut down on the use of disposable plastic bottles by ...

For a decade now, the metal, glass and plastic that New Yorkers put in blue recycling bins at their homes for pickup by the Sanitation Department has been taken by truck or barge to the privately-run ...

As talks on a global treaty on plastic waste approach, an environmental group has found that only a handful of U.S. states are taking meaningful action to rein in the plastic waste that harms ocean ...

Plastic is everywhere. From water bottles and food containers to household items and packaging, modern life depends heavily on plastic. But plastic waste has become one of the world’s biggest ...

A new global life-cycle analysis finds that if not properly disposed of, biodegradable plastics could increase methane ...