A St. Croix company wants to keep plastic out of the territory’s landfills by putting it in homes — turning plastic ...

From takeout containers to water bottles, plastic seems unavoidable in our daily lives. Now, two new studies have found that we’re eating and drinking more plastic than we might have realized.

The seas are brimming with the stuff, and it can be disheartening to find plastic soiling otherwise pristine coasts. But this unsightly garbage obscures a more insidious problem — much of the ocean’s ...

"These measures must continue to be implemented and expanded, but they are not enough to tackle the plastic problem," says Lahl, lead author of the study. "Our proposed solution starts much ...

KAMPALA, Uganda — In Uganda’s Mbale district, famous for its production of arabica coffee, a plague of plastic bags locally known as buveera is creeping beyond the city. It’s a problem that ...

I did walk away with a stark new understanding of the problem. Before writing this article, I had not known that global plastic production had roughly doubled every 10 to 15 years since the 1960s ...

KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — In Uganda’s Mbale district, famous for its production of arabica coffee, a plague of plastic bags locally ... their agenda It’s a problem that has long littered ...

KAMPALA, Uganda — In Uganda's Mbale district, famous for its production of arabica coffee, a plague of plastic bags locally known as buveera is creeping beyond the city. It's a problem that has ...