From bubble wrap to puffy air-filled plastic pockets to those foam peanuts ... lots of what keeps items safe during shipping often ends up in landfills, or in the environment as pollution.

How many pots is that? Nearly 242 million. Wow! Historically, more plants were sold as bare-root, ball and burlap, or in ...

The woman carrying the red cloth lives at the landfill ... with a pair of plastic chairs, and lacking plumbing, bedding, or refrigeration. The flat is in a garbage-filled slum named Aroma ...

Trump signed an executive order this week in favor of plastic straws over paper ones. As the debate rages on, here’s why 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 ...

Just as quickly, it became a target of environmental movements protesting litter, garbage-filled oceans, and landfills brimming with plastic. Oil and chemical companies responded by looking into ...

Although such reprocessing prolongs the life of the plastic, it’s a one-way trajectory that ultimately ends at a landfill or incinerator. Such a system isn’t recycling, advocates argue — it ...

According to The Cut, we have heard about the dangers of black plastic filled with chemicals coming ... like electronics often ends up in our landfills. It's those discarded electronics that ...

Our takeout bags are filled with plastic containers and plastic utensils. A lot of plastic products can be recycled, but the majority of them just end up in landfills and go on to pollute our oceans.