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

A Unep study estimates that between 19 - 23 million tonnes of plastic waste leak into aquatic ecosystems annually.

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

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

Among the biggest culprits of plastic pollution in the ocean and along shorelines are thin plastic shopping bags, which have ...

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

Nearly half a century of beach cleanups across America show that plastic bag bans reduce plastic bag litter washing up on our ...

In some coastal counties, a bathtub of ocean water holds 10 or more tiny plastic fragments, which researchers link to higher ...

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.

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

The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) has always maintained that we owe the environment a collective duty of care ...

The Ogun State government, on Tuesday, unveiled two initiatives – the Plastic For Cash and the Blue Box – to combat plastic ...