Watchdog group glued trackers to 53 of the chain’s cups across nine states and found none ended up at a recycling facility ...

Tracy J. Wholf is a senior coordinating producer of climate and environmental coverage for CBS News and Stations, based in New York. Many consumers trust that when they toss a plastic cup into a ...

The next time you order an iced coffee from Starbucks, it might not look that different — but there’s been a major change. The chain announced Thursday that the plastic cups for all sizes of its cold ...

The coffee giant recently touted its cold-beverage cups as “widely recyclable.” Starbucks recently touted their cold-beverage ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Within 15 years, a garbage truck’s worth of plastic could be entering our environment every second. Not every ...

Plastic is a useful everyday item but has grown to become a global problem. Every year the world produces over 460 million tonnes of plastic, [1] 90% of which pollutes almost all areas of our planet, ...

Plastic pollution is a "grave, growing and under-recognized danger" to health that is costing the world at least $1.5 trillion a year, experts warned in a report on Monday. The new review of the ...

Ahead of the expected finalization of a UN global plastics treaty, a group of international experts calls for a greater focus on health impacts when considering plastic pollution. The Health Policy ...

Leaders from around the world have gathered in Busan, South Korea this week in hopes of finally striking a global treaty to reduce the world’s growing level of plastic pollution. Negotiations began ...

The negative consequences of plastic are everywhere and affect everyone. Microplastics are now found throughout our bodies, mismanagement of plastic is linked to major health risks, the impacts of ...

In the two decades to 2019, global plastic production doubled. By 2040, plastic manufacturing and processing could consume as much as 20% of global oil production and use up 15% of the annual carbon ...