Reduce plastic waste with these Plastic Free July swaps, including reusable bags, loose-leaf tea, natural-fiber clothing, ...

Eastman hosted a visit from EPA officials, while NRDC raised concerns about a required federal chemical reporting process and PureCycle and WM partnered on plastic recovery at baseball stadiums.

From microplastics clogging up our oceans to landfills leaching out dangerous chemicals, plastic waste is a serious and ...

In the 2008 Disney film Wall-E, a tiny robot finds himself alone on planet Earth, working to clean up a world decimated by trash and abandoned by humans who left it that way. Heartwarming as the film ...

A discarded bottle, shopping bag or car part can remain in the waste stream long after its useful life ends. Although plastic ...

This story is from The Pulse, a weekly health and science podcast. Find it on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. When I called Wayne DeFeo and told him I was considering ...

Polystyrene — the plastic America loves to hate — wants a second chance. Used in foam cups, packaging peanuts and the molded ...

We need less plastic waste and more clean hydrogen power. Researchers at the University of Cambridge might make both possible.

It's easy to think of recycling as the solution to plastic pollution, but the vast majority of plastic waste now ends up in landfills, or worse.

A new way of converting stubborn plastic waste into high-value chemicals using only water and oxygen has been developed by an ...