World Environment Day 2025, hosted by the Republic of Korea, will spotlight the urgent need to beat plastic pollution. The ...

The disposable plastic straw became the movement's poster child. Bans or restrictions ... founder of the Last Plastic Straw campaign. "It was about single-use plastics, a way to get people to ...

Most likely, you use a single-use plastic bag for as long it takes to ... because they were the poster child for everything wrong with the proliferation of unnecessary plastic.

"There's like 4x as much plastic here as there is toothpaste." Hotel guest sparks outrage after sharing photo of toothpaste provided in room: 'What a waste' first appeared on The Cool Down.

New legislation is going to be introduced in Pennsylvania that is aimed at banning single-use plastic bags throughout the ...

Sen. Judith Schwank says plastic pollution poses serious threats to our environmental rights, public health and community resources.

What would a month without buying any new single-use plastic products look like? It’s a tall order for many Americans, who go through about five pounds of plastic a week, according to Oxford ...

Or you order takeout for dinner and save the black plastic container to pack your lunch the next day. Reuse is one of the core rules of sustainability. But should you be reusing these single-use ...

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