Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Scientists have warned that we are inhaling harmful particles from disintegrating plastic bags. A team from King’s College, London ...

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 ...

Plastic shopping bags, which have low recycling rates and often become litter when they blow away in the wind, are among the biggest culprits of plastic pollution in the ocean and along shorelines.

One of Washington’s major recycling efforts – at least in terms of involving the biggest number of people whether they want to or not – is a 2020 law that banned so-called single-use plastic carrying ...

Plastic bags littering the shoreline is a common sight on beaches around the world. CREDIT: Prasit Photo via Getty Images. Get the Popular Science daily newsletter ...