Plastic is ubiquitous. It’s in the clothes we wear, wrapped around the food we eat and in the toothpaste we use. It floats in the oceans and litters the snow on Mount Everest. Every year, the world ...

Of the 400-million-plus tons of plastic that the world produces each year, more than a third is only used once before it’s thrown out. Each minute, by some estimates, the equivalent of a garbage truck ...

SINGLE-USE PLANET explores efforts to reduce the growing deluge of disposable plastic. Plastic is vital to our modern way of life—but not all forms of it. In search of why more single-use plastic ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Credit: Shutterstock / Real_Life_photo Credit: Shutterstock / Real_Life_photo Most people are aware of the harm single-use plastic ...

The government said it would phase out its purchases of single-use plastics, a significant step because it is the biggest buyer of consumer goods in the world. By Hiroko Tabuchi Calling plastic ...