Disposable plastic items are things we claim to hate but secretly love. Think about plastic cutlery: We keep the stuff on hand to throw into our lunch bags, to eat on the run, or to make party clean ...

Disposable items should generally be avoided, but here are ideas for extending their lifespan if you do end up with some.

Four years after Germany phased out light plastic bags, how has the EU addressed plastic waste — and why do single-use items ...

Convenience and extreme caution around patient safety have validated the use of disposable medical equipment, but the plastic waste is piling up.

Need a plastic fork at a Hong Kong restaurant? Come April 22, Earth Day, customers will have to start reaching for more eco-friendly cutlery, according to a bill passed Wednesday by the city's ...

A trendy but fast-fleeting gimmick that Wall Street created didn't help out at least one rural area of South Carolina. A manufacturer aiming to replace disposable plastic products with alternatives ...

NEW DELHI (AP) — India banned some single-use or disposable plastic products Friday as part of a federal plan to phase out the ubiquitous material in the nation of nearly 1.4 billion people. For the ...

NEW DELHI — India banned some single-use or disposable plastic products Friday as part of a federal plan to phase out the ubiquitous material in the nation of nearly 1.4 billion people. For the first ...

Lawmakers appear to be walking back a proposal to curb use of plastic products like disposable cutlery, condiment packets and tiny shampoo bottles, over concerns the bill doesn’t have enough votes to ...