How does garbage shape our world? That’s the driving question behind “Castaway: The Afterlife of Plastic,” on view at Harvard University’s Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology in ...

The government launched a National Beach Cleanup Strategy on Thursday to cut plastic pollution, with cleanups in Mexico's 17 coastal states.

Meanwhile, less than 10 percent of American plastic waste is recycled, and the U.S. has a 30-year history of shipping half of its recyclable plastic overseas, primarily to China and other ...

Spending time out in nature can do wonders for our health, but for one nature lover, a stroll at their local fishing hole left them feeling frustrated and angry after coming across the last thing ...