Around the world, plastics find their way into farm fields. Climate change makes agricultural plastic, already a necessity ...

The plastic plant pot is the gardener's equivalent to the shopper's plastic carrier bag: we know we use too many of them - some 500 million each year in the UK - but they’re really cheap and ...

“This is a great opportunity to recycle items that we can’t take at the Recycle Center,” said Julie Hatter, plant manager for the Lexington Recycle Center. “Plastic bags and film get ...

Plastic bags start out as fossil fuels and end up as deadly waste in landfills and the ocean. Birds often mistake shredded plastic bags for food, filling their stomachs with toxic debris. For hungry ...

Milk cartons, Styrofoam cups, grocery store bags — a new plant in Ashley, Indiana, wants them all. Brightmark's facility is the first of its kind in the US. It converts plastic waste into wax ...

with bags and packaging a major culprit. A Bay Area startup has figured out a way to replace these plastics, with a plant that grows abundantly off the coast. At the Fitzgerald Marine Reserve in ...