For the average person, trying to avoid plastics can feel overwhelming—and maybe pointless. Our writer asked two experts how they navigate our plastic-filled world.

Within 15 years, a garbage truck’s worth of plastic could be entering our environment every second. Not every minute. Every second.

Within 15 years, a garbage truck's worth of plastic could be entering our environment every second. Not every minute. Every second.

Throwing your plastic bottles in the recycling bin may make you feel good about yourself, or ease your guilt about your ...

Researchers have developed a sustainability metric for the ecological design of plastic products that have low persistence in the environment. Adhering to this metric could provide substantial ...

A new initiative focuses on the investment and environmental value of reducing plastic waste. Trùng Khánh, a district of Cao Bằng Province in the Northeast region of Vietnam, attracts many tourists ...

Climate change is making plastic pollution more mobile, toxic, and widespread, accelerating risks for wildlife, ecosystems, and people.

The ubiquitous plastic beverage bottle makes up about half of plastic waste collected for recycling in the U.S. Most recycled ...

This story is adapted from A Poison Like No Other: How Microplastics Corrupted Our Planet and Our Bodies, by Matt Simon. The year was 1863, and famous billiard player Michael Phelan was worrying about ...

If you want to discourage folks from doing something naughty, tax the hell out of it. Take cigarettes, for example: On average, in high-income countries you get a 4 percent drop in demand for every 10 ...