GENEVA (AP) — Negotiations on a global treaty to end plastic pollution are drawing to a close Thursday, as nations remain deadlocked over whether to tackle the exponential growth of plastic production ...

After a yearslong commitment to phase out single use plastic bags from its stores by 2025, here's where Kroger stands.

Of the 400-million-plus tons of plastic that the world produces each year, more than a third is only used once before it’s thrown out. Each minute, by some estimates, the equivalent of a garbage truck ...

The law closes a loophole in the state’s 2014 plastic bag law by prohibiting all plastic checkout bags, including thicker ...

Plastic is ubiquitous. It’s in the clothes we wear, wrapped around the food we eat and in the toothpaste we use. It floats in the oceans and litters the snow on Mount Everest. Every year, the world ...

BACOLOD CITY – Sagay City in Negros Occidental on Thursday officially enforced a total ban on single-use plastics, as part of ...

In “Goodbye, Hemispheres magazine and little bottles of shampoo” (Sept. 8), the Tribune Editorial Board raises the question, “We’re not sure what the little bottles did to merit this specific legal ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Over the past several years, US cities and states have passed hundreds of policies ...

RefuseSingleUseDay shines a light on a simple idea that feels almost old-fashioned: stop treating things as throwaways in the first ...