A new study estimates that plastics burden the U.S. with hundreds of billions in annual health, environmental, and economic losses.

Starting Saturday, plastic producers will begin reporting the total number of plastic products they sell in the Golden State.

A recent study that recommended toxic chemicals in black plastic products be immediately thrown away included a math error that significantly overstated the risks of ...

The kitchen transformation happening in homes across America right now isn't about trendy appliances or fancy countertops. It ...

A squat, light-colored building in Tigard, Oregon, was supposed to be part of a game-changing new solution for the global plastics industry. Called Regenyx, this recycling facility took in polystyrene ...

A new global study has found that a chemical used in many everyday products might be connected to more than 356,000 heart-related deaths in just one year. The chemical is called DEHP (short for ...

Some of it is obvious. Your soda bottle. Your Tupperware container. But plastic waste goes far beyond bottles and bags. Each year we create roughly 440 million tons of it — equivalent to about 15,000 ...

Did you know that at least three in every five schoolchildren have no desk or chair, but plastic waste could be part of the solutions to lift these learners off the dusty floors? Our contributor ...

Fossil fuel-based plastics take hundreds, if not thousands of years to biodegrade, leading to an urgent demand for biodegradable plastic alternatives. Plastics may be a villain in Earth's very own TV ...

SACRAMENTO (AP) -- An ambitious California proposal aims to reduce plastic production for single-use products like shampoo bottles and food wrappers by 25% starting next decade, part of an effort to ...

Whether it involves personal care, grooming, beauty or just general privacy, the bathroom is a space that’s varied in its use, but we tend to overlook the amount of single-use plastic and paper ...

The Georgian government has issued a decree regulating single-use plastic products that come into contact with food, set to take ...