EVERETT — Over the past four years, the state Department of Ecology has enforced a series of laws to reduce plastic pollution: banning single-use plastic bags in 2021, restricting businesses from ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When you outlaw or discourage the sale of plastic bags, fewer of them end up as litter on beaches. That’s the intuitive finding of ...

State and local policies to regulate the use of plastic bags have significantly reduced how many of them are found littered along U.S. shorelines — potentially cutting that type of waste in half in ...

Greenpeace issued a report accompanied by a press release headlined "Plastic Recycling Is A Dead-End Street -- Year After Year, Plastic Recycling Declines Even as Plastic Waste Increases." AFP via ...

It was the face that launched a thousand plastic straw bans. The video begins with a close up of the turtle’s head, its dark green, pebbled skin out of place against the stark-white boat deck.

MOST COMMON TRASH FOUND ON ALONG THE BEACH INCLUDES TINY NEW AT SUNRISE... THIS MONTH MARKS --- PLASTIC FREE JULY... A MONTH AIMED AT INCREASING AWARENESS ABOUT THE PLASTIC PROBLEM IN THE WORLD ...

Plastic must have surely seemed like a miracle in its early days. Cheap, lightweight, easy to manufacture, and exceedingly durable, it wasn't long before it replaced almost every other material for ...