Christian Olaniran is a digital producer for CBS Baltimore, where he writes stories on diverse topics including politics, arts and culture. With a passion for storytelling and content creation, he ...

Romer joins the Ellen MacArthur Foundation to help the organization promote circular economy-related policies across the U.S. and Canada. Her focus will include policy related to e-waste, textiles and ...

State Democrats are renewing their push for a measure that would reduce the amount of plastic big businesses use to package food and other products after falling short on the final day of last year’s ...

Amazon said nearly all deliveries in North America no longer have plastic air pillows inside. This change avoids 15 billion air pillows a year, Amazon's biggest plastic reduction effort yet. Companies ...

If many Erie-area environmentalists had their way, there would be no plastic bottles, no plastic containers, no plastic wrappings, no plastic anything. "What we want to see is the reduction in the use ...

MIAMI BEACH, Fla. — Right now the world is pumping out a staggering 57 million tons of plastic pollution a year, and much of it winds up as litter that pollutes our oceans and waterways. But ...

The world’s plastic crisis isn’t simply environmental; it’s existential. A recent study in the journal Nature Medicine found that brain samples contained 10 times more microplastics (equivalent to a ...

Researchers find that nationwide policies to ban plastic bags may be paying off, with fewer showing up during coastal cleanups. Ever since their invention in 1959, plastic bags have become synonymous ...

When you outlaw or discourage the sale of plastic bags, fewer of them end up as litter on beaches. That’s the intuitive finding of a paper published Thursday in the journal Science, which involved an ...

SAN DIEGO (FOX 5/KUSI) — It has been one year since the City of San Diego enacted its single-use plastic reduction ordinance which bans the sale or distribution of most polystyrene foam products.