A single pellet of recycled plastic can contain over 80 different chemicals. A new study with researchers from University of ...

Researchers find that nationwide policies to ban plastic bags may be paying off, with fewer showing up during coastal ...

China emerges as the dominant contributor, accounting for 41.7% of all publications. This is followed by India, Mexico, the ...

New research indicates there’s at least one strategy that works to curb an especially problematic and unnecessary form of ...

State and local policies to regulate the use of plastic bags have significantly reduced how many of them are found littered ...

Plastic bag bans and fees reduce shoreline litter, but research has found they aren't enough to solve global plastic ...

Maybe you have been annoyed by the extra charge to get a plastic shopping bag, but a new study shows the policies actually help clean up shorelines.

A new study from the University of Delaware and Columbia University looked at plastic bag bans and fees in jurisdictions ...

The world has a plastic problem, especially in our planet’s oceans. In fact, the Great Pacific Garbage Patch covers an ...

Behind closed doors, in a domed conference pavilion steps away from the historic port of Nice, more than 40 ministers ...

Using crowdsourced data from shore cleanups, researchers found that areas that enacted plastic bag bans or fees had fewer ...

The country is poised to introduce a series of regulations that will make companies that produce and use plastic packaging ...