California has a plastic bag problem — but not for long. Governor Gavin Newsom just signed a law to ban plastic shopping bags ...

The decision comes after a ProPublica investigation revealed that the EPA had found that one of the fuels had a cancer risk ...

Walter Wang borrowed money to buy a plastic pipe maker from his dad, a legendary Taiwanese billionaire. He has since grown ...

California had already banned thin plastic shopping bags at supermarkets and other stores, but shoppers could purchase bags made with a thicker plastic that purportedly made them reusable and ...

On a beach in Colombia, children trade plastic waste for pseudo coins which they can use to "buy" clothes, books, school ...

Sofía Vergara and Heidi Klum might not be the best of friends and it shows in their radically different admission about going ...

The miracle material has made modern life possible ... in no particular order: Kenya joined a growing list of nations that have banned plastic bags, imposing steep fines and jail time on violators.

A new law in California will ban plastic bags from being sold in stores ... which also redefined recyclable bags as those made up of at least 50% recyclable material, will mostly impact the ...

Planet or Plastic? is National Geographic’s multiyear effort to raise awareness about the global plastic trash crisis. Come to this page often to learn more, and find out what you can do to ...

Plastics only began to be produced in large quantities following the second world war – but plastic pollution has since become one of the most serious ... and grey water from washing clothes made with ...

ExxonMobil has misled consumers for years by perpetuating a “myth” about plastic recycling ... To encourage people to buy products made with single-use plastics, the suit alleges, ExxonMobil ...