However, once a year, usually during Spirit Week or Homecoming Week, many schools across the country celebrate Anything But a ...

Each year the world produces around 400 million tonnes of plastic waste, much of it discarded after just a few minutes of use ...

Decades ago, when consumers went grocery shopping, it was usually at a small neighborhood store. The store might be 1,000 square feet or slightly more. Today, a typical American grocery store is ...

New Jersey has become a leader in environmental reform, but its recent moves to ban plastics, gas-powered leaf blowers, and ...

A push within council chambers to ditch a clear garbage bag mandate in Greater Sudbury ... The program ultimately serves to ...

The Houston Recycling Collaboration is part of the petrochemical industry's push for chemical recycling of plastic waste amid growing awareness of the environmental and health risks associated ...

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.

Watch the CBS Reports documentary, "Advanced Recycling: Does Big Plastic's Idea Work?" About 48 million tons of plastic waste are generated each year in the U.S., and very little of it is ever ...

These tiny plastic particles can range in size from 5 millimeters (as small as a pencil eraser) to 1 nanometer, which can’t be seen with the naked eye, the Environmental Protection Agency ...

Researchers have cracked the code for turning plastic back into the building blocks to make new plastics. It could revolutionize recycling, which studies have shown is broken. Researchers at UC ...

Roughly 10 years after California tried and failed to ban plastic bags at grocery stores, state lawmakers have passed a law that they say will forever end the choice of “paper or plastic” in ...