One manufacturing plant in New Jersey is transforming its own business to meet the demand of keeping people employed and safe.

Georgetown’s historic streets are littered with old, plastic sidewalk extenders. It needs a permanent fix. Elizabeth Miller ...

The basic goal of jughandles is to keep traffic moving safely by avoiding left turns and building curved ramps off the right lanes.

Transit agencies across the Washington region are in the final stretch of retrofitting buses with plastic barriers near the fare boxes to protect drivers from coronavirus exposure — a final step ...

Road crashes that continue to be registered at the Busabala flyover roundabout have prompted the local leadership to call for the use of plastic barricades to prevent loss of lives at construction ...

And sometimes the barriers can make things worse. Research suggests that in some instances, a barrier protecting a clerk behind a checkout counter may redirect the germs to another worker or customer.

Fishtown residents created a new kind of oasis: the orange plastic jersey barrier pool, as opposed to the dumpster pool, which L&I frowned upon last summer.

New York City’s DOT has a plan to protect 20 of its 40 miles of unprotected bike lanes with Jersey barriers, those concrete construction dividers that don’t necessarily look pretty, but do a ...

Micro- and nanoscale plastic particles in soil and water can significantly increase how much toxic chemicals plants and human intestinal cells absorb, according to two new studies from Rutgers Health ...

Grabbing takeout food any time soon? You may be out of luck on the plastic fork, spoon and knife front if one state bill in New Jersey becomes law. Plastic utensils for takeout orders could become ...

New Jersey lawmakers touted their bag ban when enacted. A new study, however, finds that bag ban has been followed by an increased use of plastic and higher emissions.