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

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 ...

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

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

Although bans on the free distribution of plastic bags may encourage some customers to increase their use of reusable bags, ...

Countries are meeting in South Korea this week to hash out the final details of a global treaty aimed at eliminating plastic ...

Regulations imposed to protect the environment may continue to have impacts even after they are repealed.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

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 ...