Reducing plastic use this year should be on everyone’s radar, although it won’t be easy. According to the United Nations, ...

Four years after Germany phased out light plastic bags, how has the EU addressed plastic waste— and why do single-use items ...

There is no shortage of news about plastic’s ubiquity or its harms. Microplastics are in clouds, drinking water, playgrounds and our blood. Marine mammals are entangled in and ingest plastic at ...

Plastic waste of all shapes and sizes permeates the world’s oceans. It shows up on beaches, in fish and even in Arctic sea ice. And a new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, ...

Scientists are increasingly blunt about a habit that once felt harmless: heating leftovers in plastic. As research on ...

If you order takeout in Los Angeles and your meal comes with a compostable fork made from PLA—a common bio-based plastic—you’re not supposed to toss the utensil in your curbside compost bin. The city ...

Face masks used to prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus as well as protecting yourself from the deadly disease have become an important tool in the past year that has been the COVID-19 pandemic ...

When you think of plastic pollution in the ocean, you might picture bottles and bags floating on the surface of the sea, a “seventh continent” made up entirely of plastic waste, or all of that ...

Editor’s note: This is the first entry in a series examining the causes, impacts and solutions to plastic pollution in the Great Lakes. Read the second, third and fourth stories here. HOLLAND, MI — ...

Half of clothes analyzed are made from virgin plastic, aka cheap petrochemicals. Katherine Martinko is an expert in sustainable living. She holds a degree in English Literature and History from the ...

The recycling industry is drowning in secrets that put our oceans, and the Earth’s future, at risk. When I started a social enterprise to keep plastic out of oceans, I was horrified to encounter a ...

Once upon a time, before marijuana became legal (or partly legal) in most of the U.S., the only plastic involved with a pot transaction might have been a small baggie and a disposable lighter. (Or, ...