There’s no way to stop our planet’s plastic consumption entirely; that genie is already out of the (plastic) bottle, and it will take government and private sector intervention to make a major ...
Coca-Cola’s plastic consumption is estimated to exceed 9.1 billion pounds annually by 2030 if its current practices persist, according to a recent report from Oceana, a non-profit environmental ...
The final few months of the Biden administration could see the federal government begin to phase out single-use plastic from all federal operations, Environmental Health News reported. The ...
Bravo for your editorial (“If Maryland had a dime for every wasted plastic bottle … | STAFF COMMENTARY” Nov. 23). There are between 12,000 and 16,000 chemicals in plastic, serving multiple plastic ...
BOSTON (WWLP) – Across the Commonwealths, cities and towns have different rules for single use plastic bags. However, time could be limited for single use plastic bags across the Commonwealth if ...
Many people keep diaries — of their spending habits, their diets, their moods — but keeping a diary of all the plastic products you use is probably one of the more stressful catalogs you can make. LA ...
When Briana Bosch started her Colorado flower farm, Blossom and Branch, the fifth-generation farmer—her family had a dairy and corn farm—mimicked what her family had always done: plastic landscape ...
This article is part of CNN Underscored’s Earth Week, a weeklong focus on our planet and ways to celebrate and preserve it. We’ll be featuring tips on how to live more sustainably, products to help ...
Amazon is eliminating the use of the puffy plastic air pillows used in delivery boxes, joining other major companies that are cutting their plastic use. The company said it was shipping 15 billion ...
Last year, even as the number of Amazon orders grew, the e-commerce giant managed to shrink its plastic footprint. The amount of single-use plastic that it used in shipping dropped by 11.6% from 2021 ...
A new report suggests Washington's 8-cent fee for reusable plastic bags doesn't cover production costs and may worsen environmental impact. Despite the 2021 ban reducing bag usage by half, overall ...