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

(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 ...

Plastic carrier bags account for much less than 10 percent of the total. Japan is the world’s second-largest consumer of single-use plastic products on a per capita basis. Greater efforts are ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

The number of lightweight plastic bags purchased across the EU is staggering – nearly 30 billion in 2022 alone. However, ...