Use of single-use plastic was banned in 2017 and was praised as a step in the right direction to conserve the environment.

As global negotiations on a binding plastic pollution treaty stall, individual countries are stepping up their efforts to ...

Picture this: you're lounging on a beautiful beach, soaking up the sun and listening to the soothing sound of the waves. You ...

Around the world, plastics find their way into farm fields. Climate change makes agricultural plastic, already a necessity ...

Paper bags would return to grocery stores in New Jersey were he elected governor, U.S. Rep. Josh Gottheimer told NJ Advance ...

Starting this week, the New York City Department of Sanitation (DSNY) has begun enforcing new composting regulations ...

UTA chemists explain how plastic pyrolysis works to breaks down plastic waste into molecules that be used again ...

Plastic pollution is not merely an environmental issue, it is an economic, social and political challenge as well ...

Now, some state lawmakers want to allow a return to paper bags at the grocery checkout, provided the bags contain at least 40 ...

While clear bags are permitted in the compost bin, regular white kitchen garbage bags and black plastic contractor bags cannot be used, Sanitation said. Items that must be composted include yard waste ...

People in the UK have been paying extra for plastic bags in supermarkets for a decade now - but a loophole in the law means ...

New rules announced by the council last September introduced a pilot ban on waste bags on select streets in the south of the ...