When Oregon banned retailers and restaurants from giving out plastic, single-use checkout bags in 2019, environmental groups hailed it as a big step forward in the fight against plastic waste.

Do you know that you may be slow-poisoning yourself by letting billions of microplastics enter your system daily?

It’s not surprising that residents of Wawarsing and legislators from neighboring Sullivan County are opposed to a new ...

Cognitively normal human brain samples collected at autopsy in early 2024 contained more tiny shards of plastic than samples collected eight years prior, according to a new study. Overall, cadaver ...

After reading the first part of our recycling guide, you’re a sorting expert. You’ve put your pizza box in the paper ...

Ridwell is sustained by membership fees, not by selling recyclable materials as commodities. Loewen acknowledged an add-on recycling service is a luxury, but said the company does offer occasional ...

They found that the concentrations of particles in kidney and liver samples were comparable, with an average of 433 ...

Unfortunately, we use nearly 100 million plastic bags a year here! The last word is recycle. That means we use our plastic to make other things. You can help at home by making sure that every bit ...

Can You Reuse Tea Bags? The first, and most obvious way, to potentially recycle tea bags is to simply brew another batch.

Researchers have created a recyclable, bio-based alternative to thermoset plastics using dihydrofuran (DHF). Cornell ...

Nearly five years ago, the United States Department of Energy, or DOE, began an unusual partnership with the country’s largest lobbying group for the plastics industry.