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Perhaps you have held in your mind that someday, you'd get a little more connected to the natural world. You would finally ...
Written in vibrant chalk colors, it highlights whatever treasures arrived on the morning boats – perhaps a spicy blackened ...
An out-right ban of plastic bags would require enabling law by the Virginia legislature. Fairfax County implemented its Plastic Bag Tax Ordinance just three years ago, on Jan. 1, 2022.
A recent study published by Portland State University discovered a variety of microplastics in 180 out of 182 tested seafood ...
Chalkbeat reports that early childhood educators are addressing eco-anxiety by engaging kids in nature through hands-on ...
Lagos has begun enforcing its ban on single-use plastics. Here’s what’s banned, what’s exempted, and why it matters.
Shopify reports small businesses are driving sustainable innovation, overcoming challenges to meet consumer demand for ...
Wanting to prevent more needless harm, Ho Lok-ting, Law Hau-wing, Lo Sin-sum, and Tsang Lok-yu spent over 200 hours designing ...
Plastic shopping bags, which have low recycling rates and often become litter when they blow away in the wind, are among the biggest culprits of plastic pollution in the ocean and along shorelines.
NEWARK, Del. — When California banned plastic bags in 2016, critics said it wouldn’t make a real difference. Turns out they were wrong. A massive new study tracking nearly half a century of ...
Policies that have banned or imposed fees on plastic bags are leading to significant declines in plastic litter along U.S. shorelines, a new study has found. These state- and local-level regulation… ...
More than 600 bag policies, along with records from more than 45,000 shoreline cleanups between 2017 and 2023, were reviewed by researchers to see whether implementing bans or fees on plastic bags ...