New research on microplastics in brains reminds us that while scientists compile safety data, our leaders should still act ...

The new law, which goes into effect Jan. 1, will overhaul a 2012 county law on plastic and paper bag use. County officials ...

The Abington Township Board of Commissioners approved the ban at its meeting Thursday. the first town in the state to do so ...

President Trump's executive order banning plastic straws was signed one day before Montgomery County council members ...

The bioplastics company, with an office in Shelton, collaborated with a UConn marine sciences team to evaluate the product’s ...

Montgomery Co. joins Prince George’s, Anne Arundel and Baltimore counties in adopting a bill imposing a county-wide ban on ...

Montgomery County Council passed a bill to limit single-use plastic bags and strengthen its environmental efforts, with the ...

Poly-Pak Industries Inc., which has manufactured plastic bags at the company’s headquarters at 125 Spagnoli Rd. since the mid-1970s and has 177 employees, filed the Worker Adjustment and Retraining ...

US President Donald Trump reversed a target set by his predecessor Joe Biden to eliminate plastic straws across government ...

Lexington’s recycling center can not take plastic bags. The new effort will turn plastic bags collected into a bench for Lextran riders.

The Montgomery County Council unanimously voted Tuesday to approve a proposed near-complete ban on the use of plastic ...