Mayor Craig Greenberg is encouraging people in Louisville to make small changes towards reducing single-use plastic ...

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And if a plastic fork weighs about 5 grams, our landfills would be spared roughly 200,000 tons of single-use plastic utensils, “a weight equivalent to 889 Statues of Liberty,” Valliant added.

Gov. Tina Kotek has signed a bill into law that bans thicker, reusable plastic bags at grocery store checkouts, restaurants ...

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Recent studies have found that a common item in your dishwasher can be linked to health problems. There is a link between ...

Do you still cook with plastic utensils? Research shows that these release substantial amounts of microplastic particles with normal use, which can then be ingested with food. When heated, this is an ...

Washing household plastic containers in a dishwasher releases nanoplastic and microplastic pollution into wastewater, University of Queensland researchers have found. Dr. Elvis Okoffo from UQ's ...

Swedish eco-friendly packaging company PulPac has received a €20m ($23.5m) loan from the European Investment Bank (EIB) to ...

It’s probably a good idea to ditch your black plastic utensils, since they may expose you to harmful chemicals. Here’s what to use instead.

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