The case made headlines after a 32-year-old man set fire to the Connecticut home he shared with his stepmother in what ...

Many plastic cling wraps will attach to a glass dish pretty easily, but getting it to stick to plastic can pose more of a challenge. There’s a simple solution: water. Wipe a damp towel around the rim ...

Sea turtle biologist and New York University Professor Genia Naro-Maciel writes that, while flimsy paper straws may not make ...

According to The Journal, the crusade against plastic began a decade ago when a viral video showed a sea turtle with a straw stuck in its nose. Shortly after, cities began to reduce the use of plastic ...

Former Assistant U.S. Attorney Sean Murphy resigned from the Department of Justice, telling NPR, 'It just was not a ...

It's the latest in a string of proposals that have elicited mixed public reactions and drawn opposition from the restaurant ...

Now, the environmental commission is working on an amendment to require single use foodware be compostable or reusable. Even ...

A St. Petersburg City Council member’s request to discuss lifting a municipal ban on plastic straws sparked multiple heated ...

As with middle-class shoplifting, there are what Matt Hopkins, an associate professor in criminology at the University of ...

The author examines the shift from traditional clay pots to plastic cups and bottles for tea and water. He suggests adopting ...

“Plastic is not part of our diet for a reason,” Leffel said. “No straws [would] be a better solution, because reducing waste is what we want to do.” On average, it takes 200 years for a plastic straw ...