This guide breaks down practical, low-waste strategies to help minimize plastic use without sacrificing convenience while exploring the world and knocking out your bucket list.

Along the way, he discovered a multibillion dollar trash trade run by shady waste brokers, and a global industry powered by slimy spoons, crinkled plastic bags, and all the other stuff we throw away.

Plastic isn't great for your health or the planet. Here's what NPR's Claire Murashima learned from avoiding single-use plastics for a week.

Further, both organizations will co-create a 60-second educational video on plastic waste management. This video will be hosted on the NBT website.

Researchers say just four policies could cut plastic pollution 90 percent by 2050. With no action, plastic waste could nearly double.

In “Waste Wars,” Alexander Clapp shows us in depressing detail just what our Big Junk industry is doing to the rest of the world.

The company says replacing the roughly 15 billion plastic air pillows used annually with recycled paper is the "largest reduction in plastic packaging in North America to date." ...

Innovators are trying to convert waste plastic to fuel. Here's why that matters to us, the planet and the circular economy.

Houston says it has collected 250 tons of plastic since the end of 2022, but almost none of it has been recycled yet.

A team of Korean scientists has developed an innovative green technology that transforms plastic waste into clean hydrogen fuel using only sunlight and water. Researchers at the Institute for ...

The U.S. Virgin Islands government says it's facing a "dire" plastic waste problem, in part due to pollution from Pepsi and Coca-Cola products.

Some 460 million metric tons of plastic are produced globally each year, out of which a staggering 91% of plastic waste is never recycled—with 12% incinerated and 79% left to end up in landfills ...