President Donald Trump has signed an executive order to abandon "nonfunctional" paper straws and shift the US back to ...

Lea Rainey knew that if all the plastic encasing the food she was buying at the grocery store was her pet peeve, other people ...

Plastic Beach, an Encinitas-based nonprofit, is tackling a major environmental challenge: soft plastic pollution.

An essential item to include on your Hawaii packing list is a portable charger. For a three-in-one option, Raycon's Magic Pad ...

A Reddit post about a chandelier's packaging has struck a chord with thousands of people tired of wasteful production.

“Taking a plastic bottle and turning it into part of a pair of sneakers that after a year will be buried or burned is not perpetuating a cycle,” said Kevin Budris, deputy director of Just Zero, a ...

Focusing initially on food waste reduction, the collaboration will broaden its scope to tackle packaging and textile challenges.

The boy was also “routinely bound in plastic wrap and packing tape,” detectives said. The 5-year-old girl and two other children, ages 12 and 14, who were living at the apartment are now in ...

Polyethylene is the most common plastic in the world. Used for food packaging, grocery bags, detergent bottles, and so much more, the often single-use items are ubiquitous in our daily lives. For ...

A 4-year-old boy in Prince William County suffered unimaginable abuse before his death, routinely bound in plastic wrap and packing tape, starved, and severely dehydrated, police said. Officers ...

The boy was also allegedly regularly bound in plastic and packing tape, restraining him for extended periods, police said. An autopsy confirmed the child’s emaciated condition, revealing the full ...