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 ...

The new plastic, also biodegradable in soil over time, may prove useful in packaging and single-use products that often end ...

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Your kitchen routine could be impacting your health and the environment. Here's why and how it can be prevented.

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