Taken together, the findings mean that bag bans and fees aren’t a plastic panacea but do matter. “These plastic bag policies ...

At Harvard, an art collective documents the strange beauty of “castaway” garbage and its place in the landscape.

But even places with bag policies are seeing a greater prevalence of plastic bags on beaches and riverbanks. Plastic bag fees ...

All of my office forks and soggy fiber packaging have gone straight into the kitchen trash, just like normal plastic would. Only a tiny fraction of this compostable packaging and plastic ...

Pin much of that garbage growth on plastic waste, so pervasive now that tiny bits of it are in food, water, beer and even human hearts, lungs and newborn babies’ poop. The World Wildlife Fund ...

Plastics production continued to grow, according to industry data. So did plastic trash: 139 million metric tons in 2021, more than ever before. That’s a lot, especially considering that plastic ...

Around 1.5 billion people around the world do not have access to garbage collection services, and how they dispose of their plastic waste has become a serious environmental problem. Most of these ...

Along the way, he discovered a multibillion dollar trash trade run by shady waste brokers, and a global industry powered by slimy spoons, crinkled plastic bags, and all the other stuff we throw away.

"The garbage is blowing now," Clair Christiansen observed Wednesday, watching the plastic free itself from mounds at the landfill near his plot. The farmer is not willing to till the plastic in ...

The analysis looked at garbage picked up by more than 500 volunteers at 44 cleanups at National Park Service sites from July through September. Plastic items make up 81 percent of all waste found ...