COSTA MESA — The owners of a local business selling plastic dog waste bags are saying they and similar businesses are the target of an investigation by a group of district attorneys over the use of ...

“Greenwashing” is a term that is starting to permeate the English lexicon. It’s a form of marketing spin that is applied to products to make them more appealing to environmentally conscious consumers.

The average person uses a typical plastic bag for as short a time as 12 minutes before throwing it away, never thinking of where it may end up. Biodegradable plastic bags are marketed as more ...

The circular economy is the latest model in the drive for all businesses across all sectors to become more environmentally conscious, focusing on putting back less than they take out by re-using, ...

Using plastic bags is an ecological disaster; it takes about 1,000 years for one to degrade in a landfill (and even then, it leaves behind microplastics that can add toxins to soil or water).

Richard Thompson, a British marine biologist who devoted his career to studying plastic waste, has long wondered how well biodegradable shopping bags actually degrade. So in 2015, he and his graduate ...