A memo reviewed by The Washington Post, circulated by U.S. diplomats, comes as negotiations over a plastics treaty reach a critical point.

More than 40 million depend on the Great Lakes for drinking water. Yet plastic pollution in the lake water isn’t regulated, ...

Discarded plastic bottles and caps are the most found litter on beaches and waterways worldwide, according to a new survey.

Sun, heat, and wind break plastic waste into smaller, more toxic particles that can spread far beyond dryland dumpsites.

The daunting environmental issue affects residents statewide.

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Plastic swallowed by young seabirds can sharply reduce their chances of surviving to adulthood and returning to breed, ...

A new study by University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa researchers shows that nearly 23% of short-finned pilot whales that stranded ...

Microplastics are turning up almost everywhere—from oceans and rivers to soils and sediments—yet far less is known about what ...

The state’s Plastic Pollution and Recycling Modernization Act was challenged by the National Association of ...

"We thought, why not focus on making food? Because plastic is carbon and food is carbon." ...