A comprehensive assessment sought to evaluate the potential environmental impacts of replacing polyethylene, or PE, packaging like bags, films and containers with alternative materials, including ...

Last Tuesday afternoon, a woman waiting at the bus stop downed her last sip of coffee as the 33 pulled up. She moved to toss her empty cup in the green metal city trash can by the stop, but it was ...

One frustrated employee shared a photo of carts full of healthy-looking plants headed for the dumpster at their Home Depot.

Over the past decade, the plastic straw came to symbolize a global pollution crisis. Here's more about the larger fight over single-use plastics.

New research on microplastics in brains reminds us that while scientists compile safety data, our leaders should still act ...

Half a billion straws are used in the United States every day, according to a popular — but perhaps not the most scientific — ...

It’s fun to conceptualise like this, and set the human story within the grand perspective of Earth’s history. But there’s a ...