Now that the ordinance has passed, it is clear that there will be more legal challenges before it can be implemented.

Simply grab your freezer bag and pop the kettle on. While the water is boiling, add some cold water into the plastic bag.

Regulations imposed to protect the environment may continue to have impacts even after they are repealed.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

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 ...

(The Hill) — 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 ...

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 ...

I love those take-out containers you get from restaurants. You know the black bottom with an attached clear plastic lid. I ...

A year has passed since Japan introduced mandatory charges to customers for each single-use plastic bag taken from retail stores. The ratio of shoppers who decline plastic bags at stores has risen ...