No country receives more discarded plastic from wealthy countries, but shipments from the United States are no longer welcome ...

Dubai: As Oman has rolled out the third phase of its plastic bag ban on Tuesday, July 1, the country’s Environment Authority ...

Plastic bag policies led to a 25% to 47% reduction in the amount of disposable, thin plastic bag litter on America's ...

The Colorado-based nonprofit has partnered with rePurpose Global to remove 250,000 pounds of plastic for Plastic Free July.

Compostable bottles in our conditions are just another single-use item – the very outcome critics accuse plastic of, but without the redeeming second life that recycling provides. Genuine ...

The team ran experiments offering people who returned bottles the option of getting a typical ten-cent payout—or the small ...

Here's a rather novel way to keep trash out of landfills: engineering biologists at the University of Edinburgh have ...

Hundreds of people took to the streets in the freezing dusk of Chile's capital on Saturday to watch a performance calling for greater protection of the world's oceans.

Feces from a variety of wild animals help illustrate how widespread microplastics have become in the Swiss wilderness.

The tiny pieces of plastic scientists call microplastics are everywhere. They sit at the bottom of the sea, mix into beach sand, and blow in the wind. They’re also inside us. Last October ...

Found! Melbourne’s best vanilla slice is at a suburban bakery in the north-west Extreme heatwave hits Europe as temperatures ...

A Redditor on r/Anticonsumption sought solutions to a common problem: What to do with all those empty pill bottles?