Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. New Jersey’s Plastic Pollution Reduction Act is an absolute success. In less than a year from the law’s May 2022 implementation, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Conveyors send mixed plastic into a device that will shred and then recycle them at recycling plant in Vernon on Jan. 24, 2014.

SACRAMENTO — California’s environmental-friendly lawmakers were quite proud of themselves when, in 2014, they passed a first-in-the-nation ban on stores from handing out so-called single-use plastic ...

Food packaging ranks among the top plastic pollutants littering the world’s coastlines, a new study confirms. The study, ...

Plastic recycling has been messy since China banned the import of solid waste in 2018, but the rise of alternative plastics ...

The fight against plastic pollution has gained significant momentum in recent years, with plastic bag bans emerging as a key strategy in reducing environmental waste. Plastic bags, ubiquitous and ...

Plastic shopping bags, which have low recycling rates and often become litter when they blow away in the wind, are among the biggest culprits of plastic pollution in the ocean and along shorelines.

One of Washington’s major recycling efforts – at least in terms of involving the biggest number of people whether they want to or not – is a 2020 law that banned so-called single-use plastic carrying ...

Beaufort County Council deserves praise for adopting a comprehensive single-use plastic ordinance to combat the plastic ...

Thirteen states across the country have enacted bans on "single-use" plastic bags, with upwards of 500 cities doing the same. More could be on the way. Environmental groups claim that these bags are ...

Sri Lanka banned the purchase and use of single-use plastic water bottles in all government institutions effective May 31, under a new government circular that targets reduction of wasteful plastic ...

Conveyors send mixed plastic into a device that will shred and then recycle them at recycling plant in Vernon on Jan. 24, 2014. (Reed Saxon / Associated Press) Ever since their invention in 1959, ...