COLUMBUS, Ohio — Fourth of July weekend is here and it's that time of year when people are celebrating with family, friends and fireworks. This is also the time of year when injuries related to ...

Amid the ongoing plastic-straw backlash that reached a fever pitch in 2018, many companies have ditched or pledged to ditch single-use plastic straws, including Starbucks, Hyatt, and American Airlines ...

Starbucks is one of the United States' biggest users of single-use plastic cups, and despite company requests for customers to place their expended cups in their recycle bins, CBS News has discovered ...

The French government on Tuesday postponed a ban on plastic throwaway cups by four years to 2030 because of difficulties ...

Tracy J. Wholf is a senior coordinating producer of climate and environmental coverage for CBS News and Stations, based in New York. Many consumers trust that when they toss a plastic cup into a ...