Plastic grocery bags are a significant contributor to global plastic pollution, and California is taking a big step up in tackling the problem. Thomas is a native of upstate New York and a ...

A proposed ordinance banning plastic bags and styrofoam is on the ballot this week in Montana’s fourth largest town, Bozeman. Proponents of the proposal, referred to as the Bozeman Plastics ...

Plastic littered across the world’s beaches can now be detected from space. Researchers from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) in Australia developed a new satellite imaging ...

After one day, the sample will undergo the process of extraction and then purification. The PHA can then be collected and used as raw material for various bioplastic products such as plastic bags and ...

As its greenhouse gas emissions keep rising (+7% and +5.6% in the first and second quarters), the Scandinavian kingdom has decided to abolish, starting November 1, the tax on plastic bags ...

The lethal FGC-9 semi-automatic weapon can fire up to 30 rounds without needing to be reloaded and is the most popular 3D-printed gun in ... Any colour plastic can be used — pink, purple and ...

A supermarket in Choa Chu Kang could not provide plastic bags to customers, even those willing to pay for them, which caused some of them to walk out without buying what they intended to purchase.

Three key arguments have come up time and time again during city council’s ongoing debate on whether the city should mandate the use of clear garbage bags. Privacy ...

Tens of millions of tonnes of plastic enter the Earth's oceans every year. Fishing line, bottles, bags, wrappers. It all spreads through ocean currents to land far from where it was dropped.

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