Have you ever stopped to think about what happens to those little orange pill bottles after you finish your prescription? Every year, around 200 billion of these bottles are produced worldwide, and ...

One of the biggest environmental issues in our modern world is plastic, which has become integral in the manufacturing of everything from electronics to furniture. Our reliance on plastic has led to a ...

America has a plastic problem. Everybody knows it. The images are everywhere overflowing landfills, ocean-bound waste, r ...

Plastic recycling is, for many of us, a guilt provoking topic. I try to be careful of what I toss into my recycling bin, even so, I do not believe that all of it is recycled. Contrary to what the ...

There is no shortage of news about plastic’s ubiquity or its harms. Microplastics are in clouds, drinking water, playgrounds and our blood. Marine mammals are entangled in and ingest plastic at ...

As the planet drowns in plastic waste, companies are devising bizarre alternatives, including stretchy seaweed, reverse vending machines and bamboo utensils, to save us all. Plastic waste often does ...

Recent studies estimate the average American consumes a credit card's worth of plastic each week. That's equivalent to ingesting 50 plastic grocery bags each year. Now, area innovators are coming up ...

“It’s estimated that 7 billion tons of plastic have already been created, and over 400 million tons get added every year. So it’s just a global mega problem,” Tero Isokauppila with Hiro Technologies ...

Local News Solutions to the microplastic problem Recent studies estimate the average American consumes a credit card's worth of plastic each week. That's equivalent to ingesting 50 plastic grocery ...

In an era marked by an escalating global plastic pollution crisis, science may have found a potential solution in an unlikely candidate – bacteria. Recent research has brought to light certain strains ...

One way to help tackle the growing plastic pollution problem could be all around us: microscopic bacteria and fungi. A growing body of research has identified a host of microorganisms, some of which ...

That’s how Bradley Aiken of Portland, OR began his response to our call for reader questions about where their food comes from. “My weekly visits to the local farmers’ markets still find an ...