Oceana/Joseph Pellegrino & St. Johns County Office of Public Affairs A baby whale has died after being found on a Florida beach with a "large plastic bag" in its stomach. Last month, an individual ...
Plastic carrier bags account for much less than 10 percent of the total. Japan is the world’s second-largest consumer of single-use plastic products on a per capita basis. Greater efforts are ...
On Thursday, the St. Johns County Beach Services announced a large plastic bag was discovered in the main stomach of the young whale and it had to be euthanized due to its condition. "Plastic has ...
The root of the problem lay in a specific section of the law which allowed grocery stores and large retailers to offer thicker, heavier-weight plastic bags for a dime each. Mark Murray ...
AUGUSTINE, Fla. – A dwarf sperm whale with a large plastic bag in its stomach was euthanized after it was washed ashore on Butler Beach in St. Augustine in September. On Sept. 16, a beachgoer ...
Life Corp. started charging 5 yen (5 U.S. cents) for large plastic bags and 2 yen for small ones on July 1. It now charges for all types of bags, including ones made of paper. The supermarket ...
Single-use plastic bag use in England has fallen by 20% after ... be recycled at nearly 5,000 retailers across the UK, mostly in large supermarkets. Globally, packaging is the largest source ...
Ocean plastic pollution can carry disease, harm wildlife, and alter the ocean’s critical role taking in carbon dioxide and helping to regulate the planet’s climate. While China and the US are the ...