For decades, New York residents have flung plastic garbage bags onto the sidewalk for pickup. The city is now requiring some ...

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

The study revealed that the behaviors prompted by the plastic bag regulations persisted even after the rules were no longer ...

On a Philippines beach, barefoot children jumped and played on shoals of plastic washed ashore in previous typhoons.

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

A new study found that policies to curtail the use of single-use plastic bags in grocery stores and other retail outlets in Austin and Dallas, Texas, resulted in people buying more plastic bags, a ...

“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 ...

Along with orange peels and eggshells, people are tossing cling wrap, foam trays and other plastic food packaging into their ...