deliveries of hundreds of thousands of pounds of plastic waste from residents' homes have piled up over the last year and a half next to strewn cardboard and tall stacks of wooden pallets.

A yellow weather warning for heavy rain has been issued for a large part of the UK. The Met Office warning covers the East of England, South East, East Midlands, West Midlands, South West ...

Despite the planet’s growing plastic pollution crisis, petroleum-based polymers have become an integral part of modern life. They make cars and airplanes lighter and more energy efficient.

Watch the CBS Reports documentary, "Advanced Recycling: Does Big Plastic's Idea Work?" About 48 million tons of plastic waste are generated each year in the U.S., and very little of it is ever ...

On August 30, Judge took to her Instagram account and uploaded a video that showed her an hour after surgery. She explained that Dr. Donald Mowlds, an associate of Dr. Milind K. Ambe, in Newport ...

The grace period is over for a whole new range of now banned plastic bags and other everyday products. Vote in our poll and have your say. The state government announced from September 1 ...

These tiny plastic particles can range in size from 5 millimeters (as small as a pencil eraser) to 1 nanometer, which can’t be seen with the naked eye, the Environmental Protection Agency ...

Researchers have cracked the code for turning plastic back into the building blocks to make new plastics. It could revolutionize recycling, which studies have shown is broken. Researchers at UC ...

Owners will be able to equip it with a rear-rack basket, a heavy-duty Orbitor basket for the little ones, or additional pegboards to better adapt to their cargo needs. As such, the Hauler can be ...

Roughly 10 years after California tried and failed to ban plastic bags at grocery stores, state lawmakers have passed a law that they say will forever end the choice of “paper or plastic” in ...

Capri Sun has confirmed that their pouch is here to stay after rumors of a new plastic bottle design took over social media – and they’re making them available by the pallet. On August 28 ...

Plastic pollution is deadly to ocean wildlife. Ingesting plastic can lead to slow and painful starvation, while plastic entanglement can cause loss of limbs and worse. None of the ocean’s inhabitants ...