Companies’ use of the word recycling to describe linear processes “does real harm,” Budris added. It “gives consumers a false ...

When the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement was passed in the 1970s, eutrophication was the big problem. Eutrophication occurs when too many nutrients enter a body of water, increasing the amount of ...

A major government initiative to get people to think about their energy choices to pollute less — like cycling instead of ...

New study shows plastic accumulates in the brain, as well as other body parts. Scientists don't know what impact it has if any.

On recovering discarded plastic from a great depth, the experts were taken aback to see its shape perfectly impact and there was more.

There’s a saying that in a big city you are never more than six feet away from a rat. It’s an urban myth, but scientists are warning cities ...

Time to part ways with that $5 half broken piece of plastic you've been using since college and give your bathroom an upgrade ...

I fret when I see people throwing garbage in with soda cans and empty water bottles ... asked to buy orange Hefty bags to ...

When Whatcom County residents learned recently that trash and recycling hauler Sanitary Service Co. wasn’t accepting ...

I fret when I see people throwing garbage in with soda cans and empty water bottles ... asked to buy orange Hefty bags to ...

I fret when I see people throwing garbage in with soda cans and empty water bottles ... asked to buy orange Hefty bags to collect their hard-to-recycle plastics. And what would Hefty do with all the ...