To the editor: To combat plastic ... only to ask the petroleum industry and its stepchild, the plastics industry, to donate the $7.5 billion it needs to clean up the rest of the Great Pacific ...

Have you ever gotten to the end of, say, a jar of peanut butter and wondered if it should go in trash or recycling ... are listeners here who are alive when plastic really wasn’t so ubiquitous. I mean ...

City Journal science journalist John Tierney pointed out in Stossel’s segment that the economics of recycling have only worsened over time. Both plastic ... thrown in the trash, Kinnaman says ...

Used in everything from water bottles to medical devices to building materials to clothes; plastic is a given in our daily lives. Yet, only about 9 per cent of plastic is recycled — the rest ends up ...

Around 1.5 billion people around the world do not have access to garbage collection services, and how they dispose of their plastic waste has become a serious environmental problem. Most of these ...

Several U.S. states and cities have banned plastic straws, and some restaurants no longer automatically give them to customers. But plastic straws are only a ... of one garbage truck of plastic ...

I am prompted to write by Sari Fordham’s letter, “Reduce plastic packaging instead ... sustainable lifestyle habits, I only need to set out my garbage once every four to six weeks, which ...

To the editor: To combat plastic ... only to ask the petroleum industry and its stepchild, the plastics industry, to donate the $7.5 billion it needs to clean up the rest of the Great Pacific ...