No country receives more discarded plastic from wealthy countries, but shipments from the United States are no longer welcome ...

China is the world’s largest producer and user of single-use cutlery, researchers write, but an app option helped cut plastic cutlery waste dramatically.

This study, conducted by researchers from China, adds another piece to the mounting evidence that plastic poses a deadly risk to the human heart.. “The data revealed that high-frequency exposure ...

A new study examines how a food-delivery platform in China used 'green nudges' to increase the share of no-cutlery orders by 648 percent. Extending the changes to all of China would reduce 3.26 ...

If these green nudges were applied to all of China, the team found that more than 21.75 billion sets of single-use cutlery could be saved annually, eliminating 3.26 million metric tons of plastic ...

Malaysia emerged as a major destination for U.S. waste after China banned American waste imports in 2018. California shipped ...

The researchers conducted a two-part study. Firstly, they examined the eating habits of over 3,000 people in China, focusing on how often they used plastic takeout containers and whether they had ...

Defaulting to “no cutlery” options on food-delivery app orders and rewarding customers who chose to forgo plastic utensils significantly reduced single-use cutlery waste, according to a new ...

As a researcher with the Department of Fisheries Malaysia studying marine plastic pollution, I spend my days documenting a ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has more on microplastics and nanoplastics in foods. Everyday plastic packaging may be ...

According to experts, food and drink brands will need to consider several design priorities when developing packaging in 2025. Even as tariffs make packaging more expensive, sustainable materials ...