The St. Patrick's Day parade will again take place in Elphin at the later time of 5 p.m. this year with €1,200 in prize money ...

Used to make cooking spatulas, takeout boxes and kitchen peelers, black plastic made headlines after a study last year claimed that the material contained toxic flame retardants which could be ...

Every minute, the equivalent of one garbage truck of plastic enters our oceans. Scientists warn that by 2040, plastic waste in our seas could triple, threatening marine life and potentially our ...

Plastic packaging can have substantially smaller environmental impacts—including 70% lower greenhouse gas emissions—compared to other packaging materials, according to a new study. The findings ...

MC: Boom Chicago asked my partner and I if we would like to join the cast. And we said yeah! Fucking windmills are great. Let's do this. We signed a contract for about a year in January of 2020. We ...

Poor people in vast city slums across the Global South are burning plastic to cook their food, warm their homes and boil water for hot showers. Waste plastic is plentiful and highly flammable.

Hugh Cameron is Newsweek U.S. news reporter based in London, U.K. with a focus on covering American economic and business news. Hugh joined Newsweek in 2024, having worked at Alliance News Ltd ...

The order targets the now-ubiquitous drinking utensils, which are considered more environmentally-friendly but less convenient than their plastic counterpart. However, it mainly concerns their use ...

"It’s pretty alarming," Campen told The Guardian in August. "There’s much more plastic in our brains than I ever would have imagined or been comfortable with." The fragments of plastic ...