The board voted in 2010 to ban single-use plastic bags in unincorporated county areas, long before the Los Angeles City Council and the state Legislature got their acts together. That board also ...

SB54 put an end to polystyrene — which had low recycling rates and high levels of pollution — in California. But the plastic industry may have spooked the governor into silence.

Negotiations aimed at forging a global treaty on plastic pollution are being blocked by oil-producing countries and getting ...

"The use of polystyrene products poses significant public health and environmental risks," Councilor Coletta Zapata said, per ...

Opinion: The last chance for California to say no to polystyrene plastic trash this year Plastics and other detritus line the shore of the Thames Estuary on January 2, 2018.

Polystyrene, a wildly popular type of plastic, can withstand seriously punishing conditions while refusing to break down, and environmentalists have urged lawmakers to ban or dramatically limit ...

Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed several bills last month aimed at reducing plastic and polystyrene use. Two other bills environmental advocates say are important steps to improving reusable systems and m… ...

Washington is the sixth state to ban polystyrene foam items and the first to ban the foam coolers. Plastic foam egg cartons, trays for raw meat and seafood, and coolers for medical or scientific ...

A recent study by Eunomia and Zero Carbon Analytics reveals that seven countries produce two-thirds of the most common ...

Silverton’s plastic bag and polystyrene ban take effect Feb. 5, but enforcement won’t begin until July 1.