Plastic bag waste, such as this photographed at the Burbank Recycle Center in August 2013, was supposed to be a thing of the past in California. (Raul Roa / Burbank Leader) It was a decade ago when ...

Discover the challenges of global waste management as this video explores the dramatic increase in population and its impact ...

New Jersey's S3398 aims to reduce single-use plastic packaging by 90% in two years. Critics argue the bill will increase consumer costs and stifle innovation. A study suggests the bill could add over ...

California, Hawaii and New York have all banned plastic bags on the state level. Only three states in the U.S. have passed laws banning single-use plastic bags as the global war on plastic production ...

Pesky plastic tags on loaves of bread, tiny soy sauce fish bottles and detachable bottle tops are all being binned by a state government battling a mounting rubbish crisis.

The Caribbean Basin is drowning in waste, especially plastic trash that’s contaminating rivers and the surrounding sea, poisoning fish and turtles. For years, governments in the region turned a blind ...

Of all the blithering idiocy perpetrated by the California government, the obsessive regulation of grocery bags is possibly the most puzzling. The latest U-turn on the road to grocery bag perfection ...

German discount grocer Aldi is closing in on a year of cutting plastic bags from circulation at its more than 2,400 stores across the U.S., but preventing an estimated 9 million pounds of plastic from ...