California has a plastic bag problem — but not for long. California Governor Gavin Newsom recently signed a law fully banning plastic shopping bags in grocery stores, updating a decade-old ban that ...

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The "Paris agreement for plastic" was set to be finalized at the end of this week. But after a week and a half of intense discussions in Geneva, Switzerland, where negotiators from 180 countries are ...

It all started when my husband noticed knife marks on our cutting boards and suggested we get some new, non-plastic ones. He'd read an article warning that plastic cutting boards can shed microscopic ...

Walking down the street, or visiting the park or beach, there’s one thing you’ll almost inevitably see: pieces of plastic packaging—washed up on the sand, tangled in a hedgerow, lying in the gutter.

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