“Around 2,000 waxworms can break down an entire polyethylene bag in as little as 24 hours, although we believe that ...

Following the Kylie Jenner Lips Challenge and the #CharlieCharlieChallenge, Twitter users are being duped into a "charity" stunt that involves them putting plastic bags on their heads and holding ...

Researchers find that nationwide policies to ban plastic bags may be paying off, with fewer showing up during coastal cleanups.

In celebration of Earth Day, H-E-B focuses on plastic waste reduction. The supermarket chain announced winners of its 2024 School Recycling Challenge.

But how effective are these plastic bag bans and the accompanying fees, which are meant to encourage reuse, paper bags or simply hand-carrying products out of a store?

Liam Hamm, a sophomore at McClintock High School in Tempe, participated in the challenge by biting through a plastic bag of carrots. His friends captured it in a Snapchat video.

Plus, the study notes all the other ways humans are exposed to microplastics: Alcohol consumption, seafood, heating food in plastic bags, breathing.

In 2020 the Washington legislature passed a statewide ban on single-use plastic bags. It’s now been in effect for almost a year, and the results are more waste.

Policies aimed at curbing the use of single-use plastic bags have sometimes accomplished the opposite of their intentions, a new study has found. When two Texas cities prohibited stores from giving… ...

Whoops, plastic in the garbage went up, not down. Naturally, California politicians now think this justifies another new ban on carryout bags that will further inconvenience citizens.

Plastic bottles and bags can be vaporised into chemical building blocks and turned into new plastics with all the properties of virgin material. There are hurdles still to overcome, but the new ...

I actually went two whole days without generating any plastic waste. In five ordinary days before the test, my plastic waste nearly filled a 15-liter garbage bag.