Readers cheered a decision to ban single-use plastic bags in malls and supermarkets from 2026, but said it should be applied sooner and in more places. "I applaud this decision, but wish it would come ...

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. A tidal wave of plastic trash will flood the world over the next decade, a new study says, and warnings ...

Vietnam shares big responsibility for eight million tons of plastic dumped into the world's oceans every year. A Vietnamese man sorts through used plastic bottles at a junkyard in Hanoi on June 4, ...

PYEONGTAEK, South Korea — Some U.S. servicemembers living off-base in South Korea are routinely violating host-nation trash disposal laws, South Korean authorities say. Violators are failing to ...