In 2023, Republican state lawmakers slipped a provision into the state budget prohibiting local governments from banning ...

Plastic trash is a problem. In the USA, each person produces an average of 100kg of plastic waste per year. Single-use plastics like drink bottles, carrier bags, plastic straws, and disposable cutlery ...

Americans make 294 million tons of trash every year. About half of that goes straight to landfills. According to the Environmental Protection Agency, the most common material sent to landfills is food ...

The other largest source of plastic pollution, by numbers, is plastic water bottles. People have become convinced that water out of a bottle is better for you than the water in their home community.

The day state officials handed Riley a large black plastic trash bag that smelled like lemon is seared into the former Oregon foster youth’s mind. “I will never forget my first trash bag,” Riley ...

Plastic is a material that, without exaggeration, has radically changed our planet. Convenient and cheap, once a helper, it ...

Littering and disposal systems cause microplastic’s ingestion into the environment, which can assimilate into food items to ...

When we consider plastic waste, we normally don't think about the items that are designed to collect that waste and keep it off the streets. But in Dublin, the city council has started phasing out ...

Plastics are inescapable in our daily lives. The vast amounts of plastic garbage heaped in landfills and in the environment, however, are as problematic as the plastics are useful. A research team has ...

COPENHAGEN, Denmark, September 15, 2025 (ENS) – Scientists at the University of Copenhagen have found a way to convert plastic waste into a climate solution for efficient and sustainable capture of ...