Scientists are using plastic bags to help handle toxic compounds in their chemical reactions. When broken down in a ball mill ...

Plastic grocery bags are no friend to the environment, but they're hard to avoid altogether. Plastic bags can’t be put to the ...

Countries are meeting in South Korea this week to hash out the final details of a global treaty aimed at eliminating plastic ...

Deep-diving toothed whales wash up dead with stomachs full of plastic and prey alike. Their built-in sonar likely can’t tell ...

“But that’s not what happened in the data. People wound up buying more plastic.” Che added store customer had been ...

Regulations imposed to protect the environment may continue to have impacts even after they are repealed. And those lingering ...

Policies aimed at curbing the use of single-use plastic bags have sometimes accomplished the opposite of their intentions, a ...

Stainless-steel trash cans are the easiest to clean; they don’t absorb bad odors and are the most costly material. Plastic ...

“Even a slight reduction in grocery bag use can offset the increased plastic consumption from trash bags,” Che said, suggesting there may be some benefit to these policies even when they’re ...

The new rules require trash from any residential building with fewer than 10 units to be put out in containers.