If you’ve ever walked down a city street in winter and spotted a fire hydrant wrapped in a plastic bag, you might have asked ...

Using recycled plastics to make railway ties reduces the carbon footprint of construction-especially when you consider what ...

It’s one of the biggest cooking weeks of the year for many families. Chances are there’s a well-used black plastic spatula, spoon or ladle near the stove. Scientists say it belongs in the trash.

Documents leaked from an industry group show how plastics companies are pushing back against a “tide of anti-plastic sentiment ... Hiroko Tabuchi covers pollution and the environment for ...

(AP Photo/Sanjog Manandhar, File) Environment activists stage a rally calling for a strong global plastics treaty ahead of the fifth session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee on Plastic ...

Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Negotiators gather in Busan, South Korea on Monday in what’s billed as a final push to address the global ...

Starting Monday, more than 170 countries will converge in Busan, Republic of Korea, to negotiate a new legally binding global treaty to end plastic pollution, including marine pollution. This is the ...

Many nations hope to reduce the half a billion tons of plastic made each year ... Hiroko Tabuchi covers pollution and the environment for The Times. She has been a journalist for more than ...

Instead, talks will be focused on chemicals of concern and other measures after petrochemical-producing nations such as Saudi Arabia and China strongly opposed efforts to target plastic production ...

The study's conclusion — that dangerous levels of flame-retardant chemicals had been found in a variety of plastic household items, including kitchen utensils — was alarming to many on social ...

A Garbage Patch is a vast, swirling zone where currents trap floating plastic, creating debris fields spanning hundreds to thousands of kilometres. Although high plastic concentration points are ...

Deep-diving toothed whales wash up dead with stomachs full of plastic and prey alike. Their built-in sonar likely can’t tell the difference. Two adult sperm whales swim side by side in Dominica.