Ten years on, the plastic bag levy has largely been hailed a success - but has it actually helped the planet? Two experts go ...

The City of Richmond is weighing new sustainability measures this Earth Month, aiming to reduce waste and protect the environment.

With the Islamic month of Ramadan now over, a familiar sight has returned to the streets of daytime Jakarta: street vendors ...

Starting April 1, property owners who don’t follow the rules will be subject to fines. The composting push is part of a ...

Around 100 billion plastic beverage containers are sold in the United States each year — much of which ends up in landfills and waterways, polluting the environment and endangering wildlife. Studies ...

So, plastic pyrolysis could help handle the waste from consumer products such as plastic bags, bottles, milk jugs, packaging ...

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

While clear bags are permitted in the compost bin, regular white kitchen garbage bags and black plastic contractor bags ...

A short-finned pilot whale (Globicephala macrorhynchus) became the latest marine mammal to fall victim to plastic pollution ...

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

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