A Legislative committee voted Monday to ban Styrofoam boxes and plastic bags in Connecticut. The committee voted in favor of the ban due to environmental concerns. Environmentalists have warned for ...

A worker moves piles of Styrofoam boxes at a facility that stores recyclable materials in the city of Yongin, south of Seoul, on Oct. 10, 2025, one day after the year's seven-day Chuseok holiday.

Earlier this week, TODAY reader Chua Chye Wah called for greater efforts to discourage the use of styrofoam boxes used for takeaways in Singapore. Most readers agreed with the call, with many ...

A ban on disposable polystyrene tableware is expected to be lifted in May, after being in force in China for more than 14 years, the Beijing Times reported on Wednesday. The National Development and ...

Reduce, reuse, recycle. So many of us heard those three words repeatedly when growing up. And yet, despite the simple phrase, recycling in the U.S. is anything but. In fact, the complexities of U.S.

OTTAWA — A national ban on the most harmful single-use plastics will very likely force restaurants and fast-food outlets to find non-plastic materials for takeout and delivery containers but plastic ...

Recycling is something all of us should practice. Although we’ve tried to make the recycling process easier, there are still a few recycling challenges you need to pay attention to. Here are a few ...