Every week, millions of Americans toss their recyclables into a single bin, trusting that their plastic bottles, aluminum cans and cardboard boxes will be given a new life. But what really happens ...

Whether you’re a hot cup of tea and meditate kind of person or a toss the leftover pizza in the microwave kind of person, you probably ate plastic this morning. Tiny plastic particles called ...

ST. PAUL, Minn., April 22 (UPI) --Patients who suffered strokes, mini-strokes or temporary blindness had levels of "nanoplastic" particles in their necks far higher than in healthy people, an ...

Why the humble straw “issue” has so incensed the present administration and triggered an executive order more or less banning paper straws from federal buildings, in favor of plastic ones ...

At most places Melissa Valliant goes when dining out, she carries in her backpack a set of reusable flatware — prepared to refuse the disposable utensils she says are part of the plastic ...

Plastic bottles, aluminum cans and wooden pallets are among the items banned from landfills in the state. Businesses found to be intentionally circumventing the statute could be fined up to $ ...

On the edge of Lethem, a settlement informally dubbed ‘Plastic City’ houses a significant community of Venezuelan indigenous people, primarily Warrau and Enapa, who have sought refuge in Guyana.

A bill aimed at protecting the watersheds of Lake Tahoe by banning the sale of plastic water bottles in the basin is moving forward in the Nevada Legislature. Senate Bill 324, sponsored by senator ...