Just for a minute, think about how much of the plastic you use today will end up as trash. Drink bottles? Grocery bags? Food wrappers? If you live in the United States, it’ll probably add up to about ...

A plastic fishing line might take 600 years to break down in nature or a landfill. A plastic bottle might take 450 years. Dental floss might take decades. But in a Harvard lab, a recently discovered ...

Plastic is now becoming as much of a problem as it has been a solution. Some say the global plastic waste crisis has reached a critical tipping point, that the oceans are swimming with microplastics, ...

Since 1950, humanity has produced more than 8.3 billion metric tons of plastic. Most has ended up in landfills or the environment. Now, scientists are working on biological solutions to address the ...

Litter, much of it plastic, dots a beach in Santa Monica, CA, the morning after a beach cleanup. Rafeed Hussain / Ocean Conservancy A new study finds the United States may be responsible for as much ...

Zero Waste Humboldt will honor several local businesses and organizations at “Zero Heroes Night,” a virtual celebration set for Nov. 15 at 7 p.m. The public is invited. For nearly a decade, Zero Waste ...

For those of you over a certain age, you may remember this now famous line from the movie, The Graduate, delivered by the character Mr. McGuire to Benjamin Braddock, played by the actor Justin Hoffman ...

Global corporates are playing a vital role in the development and scaling of the circular economy. In the fight to curb plastic pollution and advance circular packaging, corporates are stepping up to ...

Scientists now estimate that around 8M tons of plastic waste pour into the ocean every year, forming swirling gyres of debris ...

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