Policies aimed at curbing the use of single-use plastic bags have sometimes accomplished the opposite of their intentions, a new study has found. When two Texas cities prohibited stores from ...

Regulations imposed to protect the environment may continue to have impacts even after they are repealed. And those lingering ...

Pedestrians carry plastic bags in Philadelphia, Wednesday, March 3, 2021. There are growing calls to ban plastic bags that ...

Now that the ordinance has passed, it is clear that there will be more legal challenges before it can be implemented. City ...

So, we put up a sign saying, “Baby crawl zone, please remove your shoes.” Knowing that it could be inconvenience, I put some ...

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If you have a black spatula in your kitchen, or other black plastic items around your house like takeout containers or children’s toys, they could contain high levels of toxic flame retardants.

Produced by ElevenLabs and News Over Audio (NOA) using AI narration. For the past several years, I’ve been telling my friends what I’m going to tell you: Throw out your black plastic spatula.

which come after several rounds of multilateral encounters since Member States agreed in 2022 to work on a global solution to end plastic pollution, a fifth and potentially final meeting is scheduled ...

Consumer Council found that five of the 11 online retailers they checked did not ask customers to pay HK$1 per plastic bag, which is required by law The government must give guidance to online ...

By 2060, if left unchecked, that figure will have almost tripled to 1.2 billion tons, according to the OECD. The growth in plastic production has mainly occurred in the United States, the Middle ...