Scientists have discovered a groundbreaking new way to give old plastic bottles a second life — one that could help clean the ...

From the column: "Plastic pollution is not only an environmental emergency but also a looming public health crisis." ...

The world has a big plastic problem that it's yet to fix. We're trying to reduce our reliance on plastic, but that's seemingly impossible in modern society. The material is too important for our daily ...

A plastic fishing line might take 600 years to break down in nature or a landfill. A plastic bottle might take 450 years. Dental floss might take decades. But in a Harvard lab, a recently discovered ...

To encourage the use of reusable shopping bags and reduce single-use plastics in Penang, the state government through the ...

The bill would ban food providers and permittees at County of Hawaiʻi facilities from using disposable polystyrene or plastic ...