Scientists have long known that plastic waste is bad for marine animals. A new study quantifies how little ingested plastic ...

Plastic pollution harms marine life and ecosystems. Discover easy ways to cut plastic waste and join the call for a global ...

New Jersey’s Plastic Pollution Reduction Act is an absolute success. In less than a year from the law’s May 2022 implementation, ghost plastic bags fell off the top 10 list of most common litter items ...

To date, every family of marine mammal and seabird and all seven species of sea turtles have been documented to ingest ...

Plastic bag bans may not be the best way to keep plastics out of the ocean, argues Todd Myers. (Jay Karr/Island Packet) We don’t want plastic in the ocean. Most plastic degrades slowly, and we have ...

Marine animals inevitably eat what we toss in the ocean, including pervasive plastics – but how much is too much? The bar is ...

Beginning on Jan. 1, 2026, an additional four-cent charge will be added to each plastic bag sold by retailers and restaurants ...

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Scientists analyzed thousands of autopsies of seabirds, sea turtles and marine mammals and found that even small amounts of ...

RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — The city of Petersburg is now considering a tax on plastic bags — a move Richmond has already approved ...