State and local policies to regulate the use of plastic bags have significantly reduced how many of them are found littered along U.S. shorelines — potentially cutting that type of waste in half in ...

Plastic debris is now a troubling reality in oceans and along shorelines worldwide. From tiny microplastics to large waste items, plastic pollution threatens marine life, ecosystems, and even local ...

Picking up litter at an Adopt-a-Beach cleanup at Jeorse Park Beach in East Chicago, Indiana, in 2023. A new report by the non-partisan, non-profit group Alliance for the Great Lakes found that 86% of ...

Marine litter is a serious environmental problem worldwide. Reducing it would require implementing a global monitoring system, agreeing on the use of common methods and protocols for data collection, ...

Litter strewn across Great Lakes beaches is overwhelmingly composed of plastic, a new study from a region-wide beach cleanup group found, signaling a widespread problem for the wildlife and people who ...

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 ...

Despite well-managed waste streams, the U.S. alone produces a whopping 275,000 tons of plastic litter each year, litter that can end up in rivers and oceans. Humans have produced about 8 billion tons ...

LAUSANNE, Switzerland--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Philip Morris International Inc. (PMI) (NYSE:PM) today launched “Our World Is Not an Ashtray,” a new global initiative to raise awareness and drive a long-term ...

Usually, when rushing to class at the University of Washington, my mind races with what homework I have yet to complete, if my outfit is rain repellent enough, or if I am making it to the lecture on ...