On a Philippines beach, barefoot children jumped and played on shoals of plastic washed ashore in previous typhoons.

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 ...

New York City’s homes, businesses and institutions put about 44 million pounds (20 million kilograms) of waste out on the ...

The study revealed that the behaviors prompted by the plastic bag regulations persisted even after the rules were no longer ...

Eduardo Escobedo, a convicted drug trafficker affiliated with the Sinaloa cartel, was killed last Thanksgiving in Los Angeles ...

New York is finally learning how to stop its rat infestations. The answer is bins - The sight of piles on bin bags on New ...

With negotiations underway for a global plastics treaty, business leaders and scientists explain how we can stop the plastic waste polluting our oceans.

When the bags inevitably leak or break open, they spill litter into the street, providing smorgasbords for rats. In the ...

U.S. household waste increases by more than 25% between Thanksgiving and New Year’s Day. It’s that time of year to be jolly ...