A scientific method to identify microplastic hotspots — areas of the ocean floor covered with small pieces of plastic — has been tested in Long Island Sound waters. Professor Claire Gwinnett ...

He said he would be curious to know whether the fragments seen in Long Island Sound matched the fragments produced by manufacturers of plastic goods. Work like this could help protect public ...

These findings raise concerns about the long-term environmental impact of plastic waste. As plastic does not biodegrade but breaks down into micro-particles, it poses a serious threat to wildlife ...

An owner behind the Upper East Side's popular Butterfield Market teased the Manhattan mainstay's arrival to a new luxury mixed-use building in Queens at a breakfast hosted by the Long Island ...

China stopped taking our plastic waste. Now we're drowning in it. America has long had a plastic problem ... Plastic production doubles every 15 to 20 years. This isn't sustainable, Tim Miller ...

The goals are lofty — mobilize the entire world, tackle the life cycle of plastic and create a future free of plastic pollution. But can 175 countries radically divided by economics ...

Jan Dell is a former chemical engineer who has spent years telling an inconvenient truth about plastics. "So many people, they see the recyclable label, and they put it in the recycle bin," she said.

Each day, the equivalent of 2,000 garbage trucks full of plastic are dumped into the world ... have been looking more to the plastics side of their business as a lifeboat, a market that could ...

The investigation began more than 18 months ago, when ABC News and nine of its affiliated and owned stations secured 46 digital tracking devices to plastic bags and deployed them at Walmart and ...

From reusable bags to toy swaps, here are 15 simple ways to cut down on plastic in your daily life. Using reusable shopping bags instead of plastic bags at stores is a simple way to reduce plastic ...