Author Beth Gardiner talks about her new book, 'Plastic Inc.' and about what she learned about the relationship between oil and gas companies and the plastics industry.

Few families in Hollywood have been as scrutinized for their physical transformations as the Kardashian-Jenners. Both on social media and in interviews with the press, Kim, Khloé, Kylie, Kourtney, ...

It's easy to believe this common myth about recycling food plastic, but it's actually causing more harm to the environment ...

Plastic is everywhere—even in the foods we eat and the beverages we drink. CR’s recent tests of nearly 100 foods found two types of chemicals used in plastic, bisphenols and phthalates, in a wide ...

Over the past few years, the paradox of plastic as both a miracle and a menace for society has become a platitude. There are countless stories in the media and popular culture about our fraught ...

Among the plastic in your house might be an orange-colored hard laundry detergent bottle and a squeezable clear ketchup bottle. Come recycling day, you might put them on the curb in a blue bin or bag, ...

Americans, on average, toss out about three quarters of a pound of plastic each day, according to researchers at Oxford University. Most of that trash winds up in a landfill. As someone who loves ...

Taiwan, one of the world’s biggest plastic users, is facing supply disruptions caused by the war in Iran. The crunch is ...

The latest stories from our Planet or Plastic? series—a multiyear effort to raise awareness about the global plastic waste ...