A dwarf sperm whale was euthanized after being beached in Florida; a necropsy revealed that it had a large plastic bag in its ...

Fifteen-year-old recycling expert Ryan Hickman (@ryans_recycling), from Ryan's Recycling Company, explains a common recycling ...

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

Plastic pollution has become a major crisis, with nearly 400 million tons produced globally yearly. A lot of this is for ...

Recycling is getting a major upgrade in St. Peters after 25 years of using plastic blue bags that weren’t recyclable.

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

Policies aimed at curbing the use of single-use plastic bags have sometimes accomplished the opposite of their intentions, a new study has found. When two Texas cities prohibited stores from ...

EU member states have taken progressive steps over the past decade to reduce the use of lightweight plastic bags, including imposing additional charges or levies and promoting the adoption of ...

A new study suggests plastic debris like shopping bags bear remarkably similar “echoes” to those of squid—likely due to some combination of their shape, size, degree of weathering ...

Plastic carrier bags account for much less than 10 percent ... In the Kanto region around Tokyo, a group of businesses that includes large companies started “Loop,” a sales system to reuse ...