I visited a Welsh lake where you can swim, paddleboard and camp by the water

This bank holiday, I swerved the busy beaches in favour of a lakeside spot that my hiking friends had raved about ...

He saw so much single-use, soft plastic lying around, this nonprofit founder wanted to clean it up

Matthew Clough is the founder and executive director of Plastic Beach, a San Diego nonprofit providing collection and ...

What 'biodegradable' packaging really means—and three key questions to ask about it

"Biodegradable" has become one of the most reassuring words in modern packaging. It appears on coffee cups, shopping bags and ...

As plastics clog the Great Lakes, industry presses to make more and downplays dangers, Tribune analysis finds

More than 8 billion tons of plastic waste clog the planet. If stacked within Chicago’s Millennium Park, plastic dumped into ...