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 ...

Regulations imposed to protect the environment may continue to have impacts even after they are repealed.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

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 ...

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 ...

Following complaints about reusable Walmart blue bags piling up in homes, the retail giant is phasing out the fabric bags, switching to paper bags for both grocery delivery and in stores.

Starting Jan. 1, all Californians should see the rollout of a state law Gov. Gavin Newsom signed in 2022 requiring that those thin plastic bags we tear off the roll in grocery stores to bag loose food ...