Plastic waste and debris is a pressing concern for coastal communities like ours — harming marine ecosystems and leading to microplastics in our seafood. The bulk of single-use plastic products are ...

Reducing your plastic waste starts out easily enough: Switch to a reusable water bottle, get some reusable grocery bags and straws, and so on. But then you go grocery shopping. In the midst of an ...

In 2011, the Plastic Free Foundation began Plastic Free July, a monthlong challenge to reduce plastic waste. In just 12 years, what started as a small campaign in Western Australia in 2011 has become ...

Remember when suppliers began adding post-consumer resin (PCR) to flexible packaging to make it more sustainable and more attractive to sustainably driven customers? Suppliers started with modest ...

Nearly every piece of plastic ever made still exists in some form. Single-use packaging accounts for the highest-demand use of plastic, with 139 million metric tons of single-use plastic waste ...

Do you ever feel like plastic packaging is the uninvited guest in your house? You've been told it's harmful to the environment – taking hundreds of years to break down – but somehow it ends up in your ...