The products in your kitchen that are made of black plastic, such as a spatula, could contain high levels of flame retardants ...

The uniform adoption of just four waste management policies around the world could eliminate more than 90 percent of the ...

Policies aimed at curbing the use of single-use plastic bags have sometimes accomplished the opposite of their intentions, a new study has found.

Plastic packaging and food ware are some of the first targets of California’s ambitious and far-reaching program to achieve a “Circular Economy” ...

Late last month, the New York state Supreme Court granted a request from PepsiCo to dismiss a plastic pollution lawsuit ...

Study outlines a four-fold policy to cut global plastic waste by 91% and reduce emissions, aiming for a sustainable 2050.

The Plastics Industry Association lost its latest attempt to avoid California’s plastics recycling deception probe.

Researchers say just four policies could cut plastic pollution 90 percent by 2050. With no action, plastic waste could nearly ...

In terms of fact over fiction, one does not have to look too far for laws passed in California that weren’t based on reality ...

UC Santa Barbara researchers and their colleagues estimate that without intervention, plastic pollution is on track to double ...

A new study determines that just four policies can reduce mismanaged plastic waste -- plastic that isn't recycled or properly disposed of and ends up as pollution -- by 91% and plastic-related ...

If countries choose to proceed with the status quo, on the other hand, the amount of plastic waste worldwide could double by that deadline, University of California researchers revealed in the ...