Efforts are already underway to fix some of California's recycling problems. Passed in 2022, Senate Bill 54 shifts the focus from the consumer to the producers and requires all single-use packaging to ...
Rhode Islanders have long been able to choose Mr. Potato Head for their specialty license plates. However, Hasbro's decision ...
Tens of thousands of gallons of water bottles distributed to several states are being recalled after officials discovered a ...
It was reopened just five days later to allow attorneys from both sides to negotiate an award of fees associated with the ...
Cosmetic surgery chains are being sued by a number of patients after they allege poor care or follow-up after liposuction and ...
McCain Foods USA Inc., based in Idaho, has issued a voluntary recall of approximately 38,853 cases of frozen tater tot ...
That’s a wrap on harmful plastic? Microplastics — which slough off larger plastics — plague everything we touch, from our food to our cleaning tools, increasing the risk of heart attacks, strokes and ...
Right now, an estimated 130 million metric tons of plastic waste enters the air, water, soil, and human bodies every year. By 2040, that number will jump to 280 million metric tons—about a garbage ...
This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Within 15 years, a garbage truck’s worth of plastic could be entering our environment every second. Not every ...
Chemical additions to plastic that mimic natural polymers like DNA can create materials that break down in days, months or years rather than littering the environment for centuries. Researchers hope ...
Climate change conditions turn plastics into more mobile, persistent, and hazardous pollutants. This is done by speeding up plastic breakdown into microplastics—microscopic fragments of ...
The surging tide of microplastics is already an environmental and health threat, but as the world heats up — driving increasingly extreme weather — it’s transforming them into “more mobile, persistent ...