Yet the coffee cup lids, water bottles and bags we use once and throw ... The Eastern Island is now littered with tiny fragments of plastic. The birds die and decay, but the plastic inside them ...

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 ...

Henderson Island has no inhabitants ... A Japanese research agency documented plastic bags and soda cans in the Mariana Trench, the deepest point on the planet. Plastic garbage is a choking ...

New Jersey’s plastic bag ban, enacted in May 2022 under Governor Phil Murphy, aimed to curb environmental pollution by ...

All bags are not created equal when it comes to the environment. And paper might not be as green as you think. Credit...Photo by Tony Cenicola/The New York Times Supported by By Rachel Nuwer With ...