Plastics are woven into every aspect of our lives, but what was once the poster child for convenience is fast becoming a ...

Most food deliveries come wrapped in petrochemicals. But there are ways to reduce the disposable plastic delivered to your door. What’s in your take-out order? Plastic. Lots of it. Most to-go food ...

Teknor Apex Co. wants to help kids explore their world on two wheels. The Rhode Island-based materials company just launched the Bikes for a Brighter Future initiative that will see it buy and donate ...

The tiny role U.S. consumers have in ocean plastic pollution by itself is a compelling reason to reject single-use plastic ...

Single-use plastics like drinking straws don’t dissolve over years. Instead, they gradually crumble into tiny pieces of debris. Imagine marine birds or your local birds mistaking these ...

A recent study in the journal Science found that plastic bag fees and bans in the U.S. led to a 25% to 47% decrease in ...

Cutting down on the production of single-use plastics will save taxpayer dollars, reduce pollution and protect our environment all at once.

Plastics are woven into every aspect of our lives, but what was once the poster child for convenience is fast becoming a ...

SINGLE-USE PLANET explores efforts to reduce the growing deluge of disposable plastic. Plastic is vital to our modern way of life—but not all forms of it. In search of why more single-use plastic ...

LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — Nigerian shop manager Olarewanju Ogunbona says he uses Styrofoam and plastic packs at least five times a day — nothing unusual in the megacity of Lagos, one of the world's most ...

Newsom has railed against plastic waste, but videos of the governor’s ‘This is Gavin Newsom’ podcasts usually feature a single-use plastic water bottle by his side. ‘It’s like that whole French ...