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 ...
According to Greenpeace, only 9% of the world's plastic gets recycled. Instead, plastic waste continues to collect in our ...
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Talks aimed at a global treaty to cut plastic pollution fizzled in Geneva this week, with no agreement to meaningfully reduce the harms to human health and the environment that come with the millions ...
Unlike Lake and Porter counties, which leave the decision to offer curbside recycling up to municipalities, all LaPorte ...
The overuse of plastic materials, common in many facets of society, poses serious problems for environmental and human health. The Plastic Reduction Alliance held a meeting on Wednesday to discuss ...
As accumulating plastic waste continues to threaten human health and life under water, experts and decision-makers in Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines have sought innovative, upstream solutions ...
Microplastics are ubiquitous. Though you can’t see them with the naked eye, they’re found almost everywhere — in our food, our cleaning supplies and cosmetics, our water, the air we breathe — and ...
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