For the average person, trying to avoid plastics can feel overwhelming—and maybe pointless. Our writer asked two experts how ...

Scientists have long known that plastic waste is bad for marine animals. A new study quantifies how little ingested plastic ...

Costco recalls its Caesar salad and chicken sandwich products after plastic pieces were found in dressing. Customers are ...

Marine animals inevitably eat what we toss in the ocean, including pervasive plastics—but how much is too much?

Ocean plastic kills sea creatures. For the first time, researchers examined data to find out how much it takes. The answer: ...

The ocean is awash with plastic— more than 171 trillion pieces, scientists have estimated, and growing all the time. Animals ...

For the last six months, researchers at Purdue and various other universities have been developing recyclable plastics that ...

Scientists analyzed thousands of autopsies of seabirds, sea turtles and marine mammals and found that even small amounts of ...

If your laundry is taking too long to dry, you might want to consider dryer balls. But, should you choose wool, silicone, or ...

Ever wanted to try your hand at hydroponics? All you need to get started are some gallon-sized plastic bottles, some small ...

A new Brazilian law, Presidential Decree 12,688, establishes a reverse logistics system for plastic packaging. Under this ...