Plastic bags

The U.S. recycling industry is facing a quandary: Too much of the plastic we use can't be recycled, and taxpayers increasingly are on the hook for paying for all that trash to hit the landfills.

Walt Disney is the latest company to announce a plan to eliminate plastic straws. The company plans to get rid of them by mid-2019.

By 2050, the world’s oceans are on track to contain more plastic than fish , by weight.

Laura, a Curious Gulf Coast inquirer, asked: "When we moved to Southwest Florida from the Pacific Northwest we were surprised that Florida doesn't have...

A Florida Senate committee has advanced a bill that gives certain Florida coastal communities the power to temporarily ban or regulate the use of plastic…