It has always perplexed me that single-use plastic constitutes about 40% of global plastic production, yet conversations ...

HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong has long been a major producer and consumer of great food, and a great amount of plastic and Styrofoam to go with it. That’s going to change as new legislation aiming to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Plastic nurdles at the beach in Sri Lanka. (NurPhoto via Getty Images) Britain has banned everything from plastic straws to ...

Single-use plastic and packaging has become an essential part of our lives. In the UK, households collectively throw away an estimated 100 billion pieces of plastic packaging each year. One way to ...

The Biden administration announced a plan to target plastic pollution, dedicating particular focus to “phase out” single-use plastics – such as kitchen cutlery, cups and straws – across federal ...

The Biden administration last month announced it would minimize the federal government’s use of plastic cutlery, a product which it says is contributing to a “plastic pollution crisis.” The move is ...

The manufacture, sale and use of several other single-use plastic items, including plastic cutlery, thermocol cutlery and ...

The federal government, late to the cause, seeks to curb plastic pollution (“Biden administration limiting plastic cutlery in federal buildings to curb ‘pollution crisis,'” Aug. 6). It’s about time.