The French government on Tuesday postponed a ban on plastic throwaway cups by four years to 2030 because of difficulties ...

At the Target store on Riverside Boulevard on Friday, stacks of plastic bags sat prominently at checkout counters — the only visible option available for shoppers at both self-checkout kiosks and ...

A team of researchers in Japan has unveiled a groundbreaking plant-based plastic that could revolutionize the fight against microplastic pollution. Made from carboxymethyl cellulose (CMC), a ...

That’s a wrap on harmful plastic? Microplastics — which slough off larger plastics — plague everything we touch, from our food to our cleaning tools, increasing the risk of heart attacks, strokes and ...

Millions of tons of microplastics flow into the ocean every year, but tracking the movement and accumulation of those microscopic polymers is difficult. A new study builds a theory of how spherical ...

New Jersey is taking aim at plastic again, and this time it’s utensils on the menu. Legislation that would ban single-use utensils at restaurants in the state advanced in an 8-3 vote in the state ...

In the 1967 film, “The Graduate,” Dustin Hoffman, fresh out of college, receives career advice from an older adult at a party: “Plastics.” Not bad advice at the time. Today plastics are everywhere.

Right now, an estimated 130 million metric tons of plastic waste enters the air, water, soil, and human bodies every year. By 2040, that number will jump to 280 million metric tons—about a garbage ...

It looks like George Clooney's Ocean’s movies are making a major comeback, since Hollywood studios are releasing back-to-back films within this franchise to look forward to. Not only can we anticipate ...

Despite clear evidence that plastic is clogging oceans and beaches and breaking down into microplastics that enter our bodies, humans are continuing to produce the material at accelerating rates. The ...

At least a handful of Thanksgiving shoppers were disheartened when they went to prepare the holiday staple cranberry sauce last week and found their cans of Ocean Spray did not contain the sauce but ...