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

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 ...

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

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

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

Newsom has called for a future free of plastic waste, yet a single-use plastic bottle is usually by his side during his ...

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

Areas with bans or fees saw a 25 to 47 percent drop in plastic bag litter on shorelines compared to places without such ...

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 ...