President Donald Trump is moving to reverse a federal push away from plastic straws, declaring that paper straws "don't work.

Trump first announced Friday he was going to sign an order reversing ... The Biden order also applied to plastic cutlery and other packaging. “Plastic production and waste have doubled over ...

Several U.S. states and cities have banned plastic straws, and some restaurants no longer automatically give them to customers. But plastic straws are only a ... of plastic waste enter the ...

In the United States, only around 5% of plastic waste is recycled, and over 86% of that waste is sent to landfills. The ...

Straws are only a drop in the ocean of plastic pollution. But they have come to serve as a stand-in for the larger question of how to tackle this urgent issue, as global plastic waste is set to ...

U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday signed an executive order aimed at encouraging the U.S. government and consumers to buy plastic drinking straws, pushing back efforts by his predecessor to ...

The development of affordable, environment-friendly alternatives to single-use plastics could eventually solve much of the world’s plastic waste problem ... attention not only for food ...

CITY OF SAN FERNANDO—Some 5,000 students from this city’s public elementary joined the launching of an initiative aimed at recycling single-use plastic waste into school furniture.

The development of affordable, environment-friendly alternatives to single-use plastics could eventually solve much of the world’s plastic waste problem — and several ... Pectin is gaining attention ...

However, these are expensive processes that have been commercialized for only a handful of plastics that have already been separated from other plastic waste. By the end of this year, IDTechEx ...