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

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

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

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 ...

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Regulations imposed to protect the environment may continue to have impacts even after they are repealed.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

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

Policies aimed at curbing the use of single-use plastic bags have sometimes accomplished the opposite of their intentions, a ...

Here are affordable ways to reduce the plastic you consume while shopping and eating, enjoying a healthier lifestyle that’s ...

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.