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Community-led research from UCSB’s Benioff Ocean Science Laboratory spans three years, four continents and eight countries to reveal the scale of river plastic waste and offer solutions to stop it at ...

LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — A medical school student at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas is hoping to change the way restaurants prepare your food in the U.S. For Joshua Khorsandi, it’s all about reducing ...

Nick Blackmer is a librarian, fact-checker, and researcher with more than 20 years of experience in consumer-facing health and wellness content. Many plastic dishes and storage containers are marked ...

Remember the movement to eliminate plastic straws? While it hasn’t solved our massive plastic problem, it was a major stepping stone to changing the way the public thinks about single-use items. And ...

Plastic pollution is one of the biggest environmental challenges of our time, but researchers at Northwestern University may have found a new solution. Their newly developed method can break down ...

More than 400 million metric tons of plastic is produced annually, and only a small fraction is recycled. The rest ends up in landfills, or leaks into the natural environment, which is impacting ...

A trip to the grocery store often feels mechanical: you go in, grab your usual list of necessities, pack them up, then head home to unload. But the truth is, each decision we make inside the store ...

NEW YORK -- Lego said Tuesday that it will stop using plastic bags inside its boxed sets and replace them with paper ones. The Danish toymaker said it will start making the switch next year and ...