A new directive by Gov. Maura Healey banning executive branch agencies from buying single-use plastic bottles has encouraged an environmental group on Cape Cod to push forward on new bans on ...

When a veteran beach clean-up expert noticed a bloom of yellow plastic tubing along Outer Cape strands, she began to ask questions. "I had never seen it before," said Laura Ludwig, manager of the ...

Madhavi Venkatesan would disagree with the one-word whispered advice Dustin Hoffman's character received at a party in the film "The Graduate." “Plastics” is not the future. “Sometimes we make ...