Remember the movement to eliminate plastic straws? While it hasn’t solved our massive plastic problem, it was a major ...

"I have a wheelie bin full." Employee stunned after opening box containing new equipment: 'This pic was 1/3rd [of] the total' ...

Plastic bags start out as fossil fuels and end up as deadly waste in landfills and the ocean. Birds often mistake shredded plastic bags for food, filling their stomachs with toxic debris. For hungry ...

Students test a piece of aluminum foil, plastic from a zip-closing plastic bag, and copierpaper to learn about some of their properties. Students conduct tests on the materials and then help design a ...

A year has passed since Japan introduced mandatory charges to customers for each single-use plastic bag taken from retail stores. The ratio of shoppers who decline plastic bags at stores has risen ...

Plastic bag bans may not be the best way to keep plastics out of the ocean, argues Todd Myers. Jay Karr Island Packet We don’t want plastic in the ocean. Most plastic degrades slowly ...

There’s the plastic waste we can see—bottles, bags, discarded fishing nets ... “If they get a piece of plastic, that could be it. A single thread in the stomach of a larval fish is ...