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

Plastic has become a vital part of our lives of convenience. Yet the coffee cup lids, water bottles and bags we use once and throw away do end up somewhere -- in landfills, but also in the ocean.

Straws might seem insignificant, but the plastic straw has come to symbolize a global pollution crisis over the past decade.

Due to ocean currents gyrating swirls of garbage like fishing nets, plastic water bottles, and other items that wash out of landfills, a floating garbage patch exists throughout the world’s gyres.

President Donald Trump on Monday signed an executive order aimed at encouraging the U.S. government and consumers to purchase ...