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 ...

Plastic grocery bags are a significant contributor to global plastic pollution, and California is taking a big step up in tackling the problem. Thomas is a native of upstate New York and a ...

Traveling with a pet can be challenging. A good, airline-approved pet carrier can help reduce stress for both you and your ...

Forget foil and plastic wrap for your casseroles and cakes — try one of these top-rated helpers from Hamilton Beach, Oxo and ...

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 ...

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