The Washington Department of Ecology has fined 35 plastic producers a combined total of $416,554 for violating Washington’s ...

She has personally tested nearly 300 bags, jeans, bras, shoes, and more. A good tote is for the schlep. One day your trusty tote bag transports your laptop and a couple of books, and the next it ...

A billion kilograms of waste from plastic food containers — equivalent in weight to half a million cars — is generated every year in China, according to Yufei Qin, head of the plastic ...

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 ...

Plastic food containers are perfect for stashing leftovers and prepping meals. But how long you can keep using them before ...

Planet or Plastic? is National Geographic’s multiyear effort to raise awareness about the global plastic trash crisis. Come to this page often to learn more, and find out what you can do to ...

Love them or hate them, you probably have a pile of plastic food storage containers stashed somewhere in your kitchen. These containers are endlessly useful for storing leftovers or holding your ...

They were washed in with the tide, most likely from China or the US, thousands of miles away -- part of an enormous plastic garbage patch, spinning in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, which you ...

For instance, a metal loop used to plate bacteria needs to be heated to ensure biological decontamination, which takes time, and the plastic containers used to store chemicals have to be ...

'Substandard living conditions,' dangerous snakes in plastic totes found at apartment of Florence snake bite victim Yahoo News ...

While a common family of bacteria, Comamonadaceae, grow on plastics in urban rivers and wastewater systems, it was unclear how these bacteria interact with and break down plastic. Professor Ludmilla ...

The unloading of hundreds of containers with imported coffee beans at East Coast ports has stopped due to the strike of portworkers, aggravating the tight supply in the largest coffee-drinking nation.