When you outlaw or discourage the sale of plastic bags, fewer of them end up as litter on beaches.

Taken together, the findings mean that bag bans and fees aren’t a plastic panacea but do matter. “These plastic bag policies ...

More than just an environmental issue, plastic pollution is increasingly being recognized as a public health threat. As plastics degrade into microplastics and leach harmful chemicals, they enter ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Mumbai: On the occasion of World Environment Day 2025, a powerful environmental awareness campaign titled "Tik Tik Plastic" has been launched in Mumbai. As part of the campaign, a short film ...

Environmentalists weigh in on the effects of plastic in the ocean on World Environment ... an environmental science professor. ‘NO ONE SEES THE SAD REALITY UNDERNEATH THE OCEAN’According ...

Miley Cyrus didn't feel her Dua Lipa collaboration Prisoner was the right fit for her album Plastic Hearts ... Miley has insisted she means no disrespect to her fellow pop star, but she didn ...

New York lawmakers are pushing to ban the sale of nonstick cookware over a chemical coating they say is dangerous ... kitchen items contain a type of plastic made from “forever chemicals.” ...

JoJo Siwa addressed the joke Miley Cyrus made about her sexuality amid her new relationship with Celebrity Big Brother UK costar Chris Hughes.

"Back when I worked retail, a male cashier refused to ring up feminine hygiene products. He would make one of the female ...

Sylvester Stewart — known to most of the world as Sly Stone, who passed away at 82 on Monday — was one of the most important ...

WAKO, Japan, June 4 (Reuters) - Researchers in Japan have developed a plastic that ... University of Tokyo say their new material breaks down much more quickly and leaves no residual trace.