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

Although bans on the free distribution of plastic bags may encourage some customers to increase their use of reusable bags, ...

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

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

Plastic grocery bags are no friend to the environment, but they're hard to avoid altogether. Plastic bags can’t be put to the ...

When the bags inevitably leak or break open, they spill litter into the street, providing smorgasbords for rats. In the ...

- Nina Gomes recovers a discarded plastic bag from ocean waters, near Copacabana beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, March 19, ...

Regulations imposed to protect the environment may continue to have impacts even after they are repealed. And those lingering ...

Along with orange peels and eggshells, people are tossing cling wrap, foam trays and other plastic food packaging into their ...

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

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