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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Designer Xuanhao Li merges computational design, digital fabrication and traditional craftsmanship to upcycle discarded ...

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