Beaufort County is leading a broader effort to restrict bags and other items made of plastic. Beaufort’s preliminary vote was ...

What would a month without buying any new single-use plastic products look like? It’s a tall order for many Americans, who go through about five pounds of plastic a week, according to Oxford ...

The proposed restrictions are included in wider-ranging bill before the CT legislature that addresses the management of solid waste, HB 5524.

Island Trading has joined Beyond Plastics Bermuda, receiving the organisation’s Champions Certificate for its efforts to ...

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Single-use plastics (SUPs) seem to be everywhere. Wrapped around our food, holding our iced coffee, at the buffet line as plates and utensils, stitched into our clothing, and even within our bodies as ...

Single-use plastics like drinking straws don’t dissolve over years. Instead, they gradually crumble into tiny pieces of debris. Imagine marine birds or your local birds mistaking these ...

Ministry of Environment, Urbanization, and Climate Change finalizing new regulation modeled after EU’s Single-Use Plastics directive, which was adopted in 2019 to prevent and reduce impact of certain ...

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A pilot program aimed at reducing plastic waste was launched at one of its participating establishments in Bar Harbor. Researchers and participants hope to see the program adopted across the ...