Now, new research, published Friday in Science Advances, reexamines the U.S.’s role as a plastic consumer and concludes that the country has much more work to do at home to manage its waste.

And that means the return of the barrage of plastic rats being thrown onto the ice after a Panthers victory at Amerant Bank Arena. The team also is embracing the rat legend for Game 3 by putting ...

DURING the past 10 years, Canadian-based company Plastic Bank has removed globally from the environment about 8.2 billion bottles and collected 162 million kilograms (kg) of plastic. Jennifer Arcilla, ...

All animals can be reservoirs of plastic pollution, but to understand just how much ocean plastic pollution is stored in ocean life, we used sea turtles as a case study. To estimate how much ...

New Jersey's plastic bag ban resulted in tripled plastic bag production due to the switch to thicker polypropylene bags. Retailers are profiting significantly from bag fees, while consumers face ...

Agriculture, long viewed as a steward of land, is increasingly becoming a source of plastic pollution. And, as the pressure to produce more food mounts, the problem is only intensifying.

However, she's also expressed regret over her breast implants and shared mixed feelings over plastic surgery. From her breast augmentation request to her relationship with lip fillers over the ...

Gov. Tina Kotek has signed a bill into law that bans thicker, reusable plastic bags at grocery store checkouts, restaurants and other retail locations in Oregon, expanding the state’s existing ...

Now, Notpla has replaced more than 21 million items of single-use plastic across Europe, and is aiming to displace 1 billion units by 2030. In order to make a real dent in the insidious issue of ...

A top plastic surgeon has sounded a note of caution for those hoping to get “The Kylie.” (Or should that be “The Kylies”?) Kylie Jenner gave out her boob blueprint on social media this week.

The tiny pieces of plastic scientists call microplastics are everywhere. They sit at the bottom of the sea, mix into beach sand, and blow in the wind. They’re also inside us. Last October ...