People in low-income urban communities in the Global South without access to reliable energy sources are burning the toxic ...

People walking the streets of downtown Petaluma, California, started seeing something new on the sidewalks in summer. Alongside the usual trash cans and recycling containers were large purple bins ...

The new technology would allow materials that normally need to be incinerated to be reused instead. Company launches new ...

Using bacteria to take a bite out of plastic pollution is not new. But can the same microbes be used as a food source? In 2019, an agency within the U.S. Department of Defense released a call for ...

A new study is shedding light on households in developing countries burning plastic as an everyday energy source, causing ...

The numbers are staggering. According to one report, the world uses 500 billion plastic cups every year. It's estimated that 50 billion paper coffee cups are thrown away in the United States alone.

Americans, on average, toss out about three quarters of a pound of plastic each day, according to researchers at Oxford University. Most of that trash winds up in a landfill. As someone who loves ...

Those crinkly plastic cartons are so much more than just a single-use receptacle for storing your favorite fruit.