In a quiet corner of Medina Gounass, on the outskirts of Dakar, Senegal, one man has taken it upon himself to breathe new ...

Plastic use keeps rising rapidly while recycling struggles. Incineration grows steadily, but it may harm more than help.

A year has passed since Japan introduced mandatory charges to customers for each single-use plastic bag taken from retail stores. The ratio of shoppers who decline plastic bags at stores has risen ...

State officials have reported some progress getting people to divert things out of the waste stream, but CT’s trash problem ...

We tested a dozen pieces from glass and plastic sets to find lids that wouldn’t leak, plastic that wouldn’t stain, and glass that wouldn’t shatter, and we found that most of what’s out ...

Investopedia / Tara Anand A ground lease is an agreement in which a tenant is permitted to develop a piece of property during the lease period, after which the land and all improvements are turned ...

Amazon has yet to set a deadline for when it will eliminate plastic-padded shipping bags, or make a commitment to eliminate the remaining single-use plastic used in its shipments, including other ...

Scientists lost a shark tag. Months later, an 8-year-old found it. Chippy the shark’s tag, containing a full 30 days of precious information on great white shark behavior, had arrived on a beach ...

Recalls are underway for more than 18,300 Porsche vehicles and nearly 44,400 Audi vehicles, reports submitted to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration showed. Volkswagen recalled over ...

Americans facing the Internal Revenue Service’s (IRS) deadline for filing federal income tax returns on Tuesday will have a swath of deals on foods from well-known chains that they can claim ...