A clean-up operation to remove plastic wrappings from floral tributes being laid for the late monarch is underway at Green Park in central London. Workers could be seen removing the plastic packaging ...

Two thousand flowers are in bloom right now at the New England Botanic Garden's annual orchid show. But tucked among the living plants are dozens of sculptures of orchids made from single-use plastic ...

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.

Anyone who lives in the city of New Bedford has seen them. Those plastic bag flowers that sprout up on trees in the wintertime. Tangled in the branches and blowing in the wind, they seem to hang on ...

State and local policies to regulate the use of plastic bags have significantly reduced how many of them are found littered along U.S. shorelines — potentially cutting that type of waste in half in ...

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 ...