After a yearslong commitment to phase out single use plastic bags from its stores by 2025, here's where Kroger stands.

GENEVA (AP) — Negotiations on a global treaty to end plastic pollution are drawing to a close Thursday, as nations remain deadlocked over whether to tackle the exponential growth of plastic production ...

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 ...

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 ...

The law closes a loophole in the state’s 2014 plastic bag law by prohibiting all plastic checkout bags, including thicker ...

The first thing I think about every morning is my iPhone alarm. The second? Plastic pollution. I cofounded Grove Collaborative, a brand making consumer products more sustainable, so my notifications ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Over the past several years, US cities and states have passed hundreds of policies ...

In “Goodbye, Hemispheres magazine and little bottles of shampoo” (Sept. 8), the Tribune Editorial Board raises the question, “We’re not sure what the little bottles did to merit this specific legal ...

Sophia Garcia’s favorite thing about Cal football games is talking trash — literally. The UC Berkeley sophomore works on the Cal Zero Waste staff, which launched an effort to swap out single-use cups ...