One of my favorite annual traditions is to ride my electric mountain bike up Aspen Mountain on the summer solstice. There at ...

New research indicates there’s at least one strategy that works to curb an especially problematic and unnecessary form of ...

Plastic is a material that, without exaggeration, has radically changed our planet. Convenient and cheap, once a helper, it ...

The act of storing old shopping bags inside other bags may reflect common psychological traits — or in more severe cases, ...

The main finding is that these plastic bag policies are effective in limiting, although not eliminating, plastic bag litter ...

Yet for all the ways plastic has revolutionized the medical industry over the past century, it’s now being scrutinized for what happens after it’s done its job.Plastic can easily end up in ...

Researchers say plastic bags are among the biggest culprits of plastic pollution in the ocean and along coastlines. The post ...

The innovative BeBot robot uses electric power to remove pollution from shorelines, covering 20-30 times more area than ...

The Chattahoochee river watchdog installed Columbus’ first trash trap at Cooper Creek with the help of the Australian-based ...

Dozens of Colombian waste pickers inundated Bogota’s iconic Bolivar Square with about 15 tons of recyclable goods Tuesday to ...

Lawmakers have responded. Since 2010, more than 100 countries have implemented partial or total bans or fees on plastic shopping bags at either the national or subnational level. In the U.S., 611 ...

Plastic bag bans and fees reduce shoreline litter, but research has found they aren't enough to solve global plastic ...