A recyclable clothes hanger has been developed by a fashion designer in an attempt to end the use of plastic ones. Roland Mouret says plastic hangers are the "plastic straw" of the fashion ...

The first is the material of the hanger. Plastic hangers are the most common and affordable, but they can be flimsy and not suitable for heavier items like coats. Wooden hangers are sturdier and ...

A stuffed or messy closet can be a real headache, and cleaning it can seem impossible. Here are 11 ways you can use hangers ...

They were washed in with the tide, most likely from China or the US, thousands of miles away -- part of an enormous plastic garbage patch, spinning in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, which you ...

Plastic bags start out as fossil fuels and end up as deadly waste in landfills and the ocean. Birds often mistake shredded plastic bags for food, filling their stomachs with toxic debris. For hungry ...

The state led the nation in 2014 by banning single-use plastic bags, but a loophole actually led to more plastic waste.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill banning plastic bags from grocery store check outs, including the thicker, "reusable" bags that stores switched to following a previous ban.

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — “Paper or plastic” will no longer be a choice at grocery store checkout lines in California under a ...

The world produces around 250 million tons of plastic waste in municipalities in one year — plastic bottles, cigarette butts, plastic packaging and much more. Much of that waste — equivalent ...

Despite the planet’s growing plastic pollution crisis, petroleum-based polymers have become an integral part of modern life. They make cars and airplanes lighter and more energy efficient.

Then an automated network of cables crisscrossing the 310,000-square-foot facility carries the clothing on a hanger directly ...

“Paper or plastic” will no longer be a choice at grocery store checkout lines in California under a new law signed Sunday by ...