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State Democrats are renewing their push for a measure that would reduce the amount of plastic big businesses use to package food and other products after falling short on the final day of last year’s ...

MIAMI BEACH, Fla. — Right now the world is pumping out a staggering 57 million tons of plastic pollution a year, and much of it winds up as litter that pollutes our oceans and waterways. But ...

If many Erie-area environmentalists had their way, there would be no plastic bottles, no plastic containers, no plastic wrappings, no plastic anything. "What we want to see is the reduction in the use ...

Three of the top five sustainability commitments by businesses involve plastic reduction and 77% of them express a willingness to accept the cost of implementing sustainable practices.1 All in a bid ...

Researchers find that nationwide policies to ban plastic bags may be paying off, with fewer showing up during coastal cleanups. Ever since their invention in 1959, plastic bags have become synonymous ...

SITUATION AS IT DEVELOPS. A PLASTIC BAG BAN IS ONE STEP CLOSER TO BECOMING LAW IN MASSACHUSETTS. AFTER THE STATE SENATE PASSED THE PLASTIC REDUCTION ACT, STATE SENATOR BECCA RAUSCH INTRODUCED THE ...

Upper Gwynedd Township has announced the formal start of a voluntary plastic waste reduction program proposed by the township’s environmental advisory council and approved by the township ...

ALBANY — Frank Zeoli can’t believe some of the things people try to recycle. Plastic wrap. Children’s toys. Entire lamps. For all the efforts to promote the importance of recycling, there’s a dearth ...

Conveyors send mixed plastic into a device that will shred and then recycle them at recycling plant in Vernon on Jan. 24, 2014. (Reed Saxon / Associated Press) Ever since their invention in 1959, ...

UPPER GWYNEDD — A new program in the works could add Upper Gwynedd to the list of area municipalities trying to cut down on plastic waste. Township officials heard a presentation a voluntary plastic ...