Plastic particles from everyday items like Styrofoam cups and take-out containers are finding their way into the brain, where ...

Cruz Foam CEO John Felts and Chief Scientific Advisor and co-founder Marco Rolandi started a lab in 2016 at UC Santa Cruz to try making surfboards out of chitin and its derivative chitosan — ...

The state’s top environmental lawmakers are hoping to finally pass a bill during the lame duck session that would ban, or curtail, the use of plastic bags, Styrofoam and plastic straws in the state.

The County Council will consider a bill aimed at reducing the use of disposable plastic and polystyrene foodware and ...

The plastic found in the U.S was over a wide geography. They included the Charleston Historic District, the Tongass National ...

The first bill includes a ban on polystyrene cups, plates, bowls and takeout containers. The second covers plastic bags, except for thick plastic bags designed to be reusable, as well as paper bags ...

Plastic pollution represents a global environmental challenge, and once in the environment, plastic can fragment into smaller ...

Although polystyrene consumer products are incredibly common, the economics of recycling means most of this type of plastic ...

New legislation in Hong Kong has banned Styrofoam products and single-use plastic cutlery. Under the new law, single-use cutlery like forks, spoons, straws and plates cannot be sold or distributed to ...

For McDonald's, 'paper or plastic?' has always been a devil's bargain ...