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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

Regulations imposed to protect the environment may continue to have impacts even after they are repealed.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

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.

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 ...