The outlook is grim, but a new report lays out a path to nearly eradicate plastic packaging pollution within the next 15 years. Reading time 2 minutes Around the world, plastic is falling through the ...

The side streets looked from clear to less clear today. The southeast plaza where the mobile unit and another police car are parked remains clear. The northwest plaza had some interesting activity.

No country receives more discarded plastic from wealthy countries, but shipments from the United States are no longer welcome. By Hiroko Tabuchi and Zunaira Saieed In the shadow of President Trump’s ...

In 2023, Republican state lawmakers slipped a provision into the state budget prohibiting local governments from banning "auxiliary containers," things like plastic bags and Styrofoam cups and coolers ...

Tracy J. Wholf is a senior coordinating producer of climate and environmental coverage for CBS News and Stations, based in New York. Many consumers trust that when they toss a plastic cup into a ...

San Diego has begun sending teams of trash inspectors to neighborhoods across the city to gauge whether people are using the proper bins for trash, organics recycling and traditional recycling of ...