On a Philippines beach, barefoot children jumped and played on shoals of plastic washed ashore in previous typhoons.

For decades, New York residents have flung plastic garbage bags onto the sidewalk for pickup. The city is now requiring some ...

The study revealed that the behaviors prompted by the plastic bag regulations persisted even after the rules were no longer ...

In Jakarta, Indonesia, roadside garbage piled so high it threatened to elbow its way into traffic. And in a New Delhi shanty ...

“But that’s not what happened in the data. People wound up buying more plastic.” Che added store customer had been ...

Scientists are using plastic bags to help handle toxic compounds in their chemical reactions. When broken down in a ball mill ...

Deep-diving toothed whales wash up dead with stomachs full of plastic and prey alike. Their built-in sonar likely can’t tell ...

For decades, New York City sidewalks have been notorious for their heaps of trash in plastic bags, a feeding ground for the city's relentless rat population.

Countries are meeting in South Korea this week to hash out the final details of a global treaty aimed at eliminating plastic ...

New York generates 20 million kgs of trash daily, making it a huge problem. Now, after almost half a century, the administration has come up with a solution to manage it — bins with lids ...