California's long anticipated single-use plastic law is now in effect. Environmentalists and anti-waste activists are suing, saying loopholes make it toothless and even harmful.

High-profile legislation to reduce the amount of plastic waste in the state is making its way through the Assembly once again. And with growing support from groups like the NAACP and the Hispanic ...

If you’ve visited a grocery store in the last year, chances are high that you saw single-use plastic bags swapped for another reusable bag (also made with plastic, but we’ll get to that later). Or ...

President Biden announced a new goal Friday to phase out the purchasing and use of single-use plastics across the federal government by 2035. “Communities across the United States and around the world ...

MIAMI BEACH, Fla. — Right now the world is pumping out a staggering 57 million tons of plastic pollution a year, and much of it winds up as litter that pollutes our oceans and waterways. But ...

Sophia Garcia’s favorite thing about Cal football games is talking trash — literally. The UC Berkeley sophomore works on the Cal Zero Waste staff, which launched an effort to swap out single-use cups ...

If many Erie-area environmentalists had their way, there would be no plastic bottles, no plastic containers, no plastic wrappings, no plastic anything. "What we want to see is the reduction in the use ...

ELGIN, Ill. — The age-old “paper or plastic” conundrum may soon be a thing of the past for shoppers at major retailers in northwest suburban Elgin. But they’ll still have the option for at least ...

The European Commission has published a report detailing how Member States are reducing single-use plastic food and drink ...

A year has passed since Japan introduced mandatory charges to customers for each single-use plastic bag taken from retail ...