For decades, New York residents have flung plastic garbage bags onto the sidewalk for pickup. The city is now requiring some ...

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

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

Plastic grocery bags are no friend to the environment, but they're hard to avoid altogether. Plastic bags can’t be put to the ...

Scientists are using plastic bags to help handle toxic compounds in their chemical reactions. When broken down in a ball mill ...

Policies aimed at curbing the use of single-use plastic bags have sometimes accomplished the opposite of their intentions, a ...

California’s plastic grocery bag waste actually increased after the first ban went into effect, according to the state’s ...

Regulations imposed to protect the environment may continue to have impacts even after they are repealed.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