Trump signed an Executive Order to end the use of paper straws. Here’s what to know about the history of plastic straws.

More than 390 million plastic straws are used every day in the United States, most for 30 minutes or less, according to ...

Plastic Beach, an Encinitas-based nonprofit, is tackling a major environmental challenge: soft plastic pollution.

Ropes and fishing gear used in the fisheries and aquaculture industries are a major source of microplastics in the ocean and littering along the ...

The small plastic particles are "ubiquitous" in Great Lakes water, sediment, plants, fish and beaches, an international panel ...

Tarragona’s beaches are covered with plastic pellets, highlighting a Europe-wide problem that is the focus of EU interinstitutional talks.

The bioplastics company, with an office in Shelton, collaborated with a UConn marine sciences team to evaluate the product’s ...

A British invention developed near to Rachel Reeves ’ constituency in Leeds could solve the world’s biggest cause of plastic ...

A startup in Mexico is trying to help get a handle on one Gulf coast city's plastic waste problem by converting it into ...

President Donald Trump says he is banning federal use of paper straws, saying they "don't work" and don't last very long. Instead he wants the government to exclusively move to ...

Charleston Waterkeeper and others have found almost 30,000 plastic pellets littered on beaches and marshes, while a bill to ...

“And it’s not an easy thing to measure.” Some plastic pollution enters the environment in already tiny pieces, called nurdles, which are melted down by the billions to make products each yea ...