No country receives more discarded plastic from wealthy countries, but shipments from the United States are no longer welcome ...

Divers off the coast of Kovalam, India, who were looking for an adventure found a disaster instead, according to The New ...

New research indicates there’s at least one strategy that works to curb an especially problematic and unnecessary form of ...

For most of us, July means fireworks, barbecues, beach days and vacation, but it’s also the month in which everyone around ...

A Holly Springs teen’s startup turns recycled bottles into swimwear and removes a pound of ocean plastic for every sale.

When you outlaw or discourage the sale of plastic bags, fewer of them end up as litter on beaches.

Taken together, the findings mean that bag bans and fees aren’t a plastic panacea but do matter. “These plastic bag policies ...

It’s been more than a decade since California enacted a soft ban on single-use plastic bags at grocery stores and other ...

Nearly half a century of beach cleanups across America show that plastic bag bans reduce plastic bag litter washing up on our ...

This is an ocean planet. And every company—whether it realizes it or not—depends on the biodiversity, food systems, and ...

New research shows shoreline litter in U.S. has been slashed by almost half since plastic bag bans have gone into effect.

The Chattahoochee river watchdog installed Columbus’ first trash trap at Cooper Creek with the help of the Australian-based ...