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State Democrats are renewing their push for a measure that would reduce the amount of plastic big businesses use to package food and other products after falling short on the final day of last year’s ...

MIAMI BEACH, Fla. — Right now the world is pumping out a staggering 57 million tons of plastic pollution a year, and much of it winds up as litter that pollutes our oceans and waterways. But ...

The world’s plastic crisis isn’t simply environmental; it’s existential. A recent study in the journal Nature Medicine found that brain samples contained 10 times more microplastics (equivalent to a ...

Amazon said nearly all deliveries in North America no longer have plastic air pillows inside. This change avoids 15 billion air pillows a year, Amazon's biggest plastic reduction effort yet. Companies ...

When you outlaw or discourage the sale of plastic bags, fewer of them end up as litter on beaches. That’s the intuitive finding of a paper published Thursday in the journal Science, which involved an ...

Researchers find that nationwide policies to ban plastic bags may be paying off, with fewer showing up during coastal cleanups. Ever since their invention in 1959, plastic bags have become synonymous ...

The uniform adoption of just four waste management policies around the world could eliminate more than 90 percent of the planet’s plastic waste and nearly a third of associated carbon emissions by ...

ROCHESTER, N.Y. – New York State Republicans criticized Democrats’ efforts to pass the “Packaging Reduction and Recycling Infrastructure Act.” The bill aims to require large companies selling products ...

SITUATION AS IT DEVELOPS. A PLASTIC BAG BAN IS ONE STEP CLOSER TO BECOMING LAW IN MASSACHUSETTS. AFTER THE STATE SENATE PASSED THE PLASTIC REDUCTION ACT, STATE SENATOR BECCA RAUSCH INTRODUCED THE ...