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

"It is providing a solution." Officials launch innovative partnership to solve major problem with common waste: 'I'm very ...

WUHAN, CHINA - OCTOBER 29: (CHINA OUT) A worker sorts used plastic bottles at a plastics recycling mill which is ceasing production as the global financial crisis starts to bite in China's recycling ...

The common material is a growing source of emissions, but a combination of technology and policy could help clean it up. This article is from The Spark, MIT Technology Review’s weekly climate ...

Plastic is cheap to make and shockingly profitable. It’s everywhere. And we’re all paying the price. On a Saturday last summer, I kayaked up a Connecticut river from the coast, buoyed by the rising ...

Microplastics are pieces of plastic less than 5 millimeters across, shown here in sand washed up on a beach. (Getty) While photos of littered beaches and floating garbage patches are unsettling, ...

The Golden State has banned all plastic bags from grocery stores because, as Democratic state Sen. Catherine Blakespear said, “We are literally choking our planet with plastic waste.” Yes, literally ...

Have you ever stopped to think about what happens to those little orange pill bottles after you finish your prescription? Every year, around 200 billion of these bottles are produced worldwide, and ...

In my videos about Japan I'll often get comments about the amount of plastic used. Does Japan have a plastic problem?

Okay, I’ll admit it: I once applied for a credit card because it looked cool. That’s it – that’s the only reason I applied for it. When I got that shiny brochure in the mail, I just couldn’t resist ...

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, ...