The town imposed a plastic bag ban in 2018. Under state statute, as of July 1, 2024, Leeman said “local governments may now require or prohibit use or sale of plastic materials or products and ...

British soft drinks company Britvic has appointed cellular IoT provider Wireless Logic to provide telemetry data about consumption of drinks from its new digital ‘flavour taps’ in order to streamline ...

Busybodies across the country love nothing more than forcing the rest of us to spend more of our hard-earned dollars on pointless, feel-good exercises. Most recently, meddling leftists have been ...

Single-use plastic has always been a concern of Caitlin Broadbent, a sustainability technician at King’s College London. Each month, researchers in the institute’s Drosophila fly facilities ...

It was already a mind-bending shift, last century, to go from Isaac Newton’s absolute space and universal time to Albert Einstein’s four-dimensional space-time, which is dynamic, flexible, sensitive ...

For the past couple years, the United Nations has been negotiating a plastics treaty — a binding agreement that could set firm limits on plastic production, establish commitments to reducing ...

In a report published in Marine Pollution Bulletin, researchers from Kyushu University have for the first time, provided a clear numerical target for global efforts to tackle marine plastic pollution.

That's the implied message from state governor, Gavin Newsom, who announced that from 2026, plastic bags will be banned at all grocery store checkout lines. Instead, they will only offer paper ones.

The state led the nation in 2014 by banning single-use plastic bags, but a loophole actually led to more plastic waste. By Soumya Karlamangla Reporting from San Francisco Paper or paper?

California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill banning plastic bags from grocery store checkouts, including the thicker, "reusable" bags that stores switched to after an earlier ban. “We deserve a ...

If not for the privately run school in the community that charges low tuition and allows underprivileged parents to pay school fees with used plastic bottles, the children would have no access to ...

This ubiquity, however, comes at a steep environmental cost. The production of plastics contributes significantly to greenhouse gas emissions, while plastic waste chokes our oceans and landscapes. As ...