Rural Alabama families have been plagued by severe sewage problems for generations. For some families, their sole option has been to rig PVC pipes to help lead human wastewater away from their homes, ...

Volunteers working with the Alliance for the Great Lakes pluck Styrofoam cups from the sand and catch grocery bags bouncing ...

Explore the incredible journey of how millions of waste plastic bottles are recycled and transformed into strong, durable PET ...

An estimated 8 million metric tons (MMT) of plastic waste enters the world's ocean each year - the equivalent of dumping a garbage truck of plastic waste into the ocean every minute. Plastic waste is ...

The Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) has approved the use of polyethylene terephthalate (PET) plastic bottle wastes as additive to enhance stability and extend the lifespan of ...

Most models haven’t accounted for how microplastics may increase global warming by disrupting natural cycles that store ...

A Florida homeowner says she can't flush toilet paper in her newly built house because it causes her pipes to clog. The ...

Some of the microplastics we ingest may come from the kitchen tools we use to prepare what we eat. If you want to reduce your ...

For the third year, Oceana analyzed e-commerce packaging data and found that Amazon generated 709 million pounds of plastic packaging waste in 2021. This is a 18% increase of Oceana’s 2020 estimate of ...

Example of quantitative baseline: M metric tonnes of plastic waste generated in our jurisdiction at the baseline year. A% (by weight) collected, B% effectively recycled, and C% composted. Example of ...

based River Valley would add two corrugated plastic pipe plants, in Illinois and Iowa, to its footprint of more than 60 manufacturing plants and 35 distribution centers. "This acquisition advances ...