Stacey Leasca is an award-winning journalist with nearly two decades of newsroom experience. She is also the co-founder of Be a Travel Writer, an online course for the next generation of travel ...

In Victorian London, among the factories and warehouses of the city’s East End, Alexander Parkes developed the world’s first plastic (he inventively called it Parkesine). Notpla, a startup now based ...

Mohali: The Punjab Pollution Control Board (PPCB) has summoned 14 leading brands after a recent audit found that these were ...

Part of its strategy includes exploring alternative plastic materials, but the company wants to make sure new solutions don’t end up having a worse impact on the environment. “It’s a complicated ...

As governments impose limits on plastic food packaging, climate-friendlier alternatives are in the works. Here are some that might be coming to a grocery store near you. By Kim Severson If it seems ...

Plastic is a common container for modern foods. The problem is this plastic has been found to leach into foods. While it is best to avoid plastic containers altogether, these five foods were recently ...

We took a walk with leading plastics campaigner Cip Hamilton through a supermarket to search for wasteful wrapping. It didn’t ...

If you’ve ever struggled to get one of those pesky plastic containers known as a blister pack open, to get at the item inside you’ve just purchased, you know the frustration involved. But there’s a ...

Google spent 3 years redesigning its packaging to eliminate plastic. Now, it’s releasing a guide so that other companies can do the same. If you take a new Pixel 8 phone out of its package, you might ...

Despite growing scientific consensus, the “Make America Healthy Again” health report that dropped earlier this month failed to take a hard stand on plastics — one of the most pervasive and ...