The tiny plastic pellets known as nurdles have bedeviled Texas environmentalists for years, but now the tourism and fishing industries are also urging elected officials to take action.

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San Diego passed an ordinance in 2023 to curb single use plastics like polystyrene (aka Styrofoam), including foam dock floats, buoys and navigation markers, but things like sandbags and tobacco waste ...

City council passed a bill requiring a 10-cent charge for paper bags, but it still has another hurdle to clear before ...

In your own backyard, you might notice fewer birds or insects. This is a sign that something is amiss in the natural balance.

A plastic surgeon has issued a serious warning to newlywed Lauren Sanchez Bezos after noticing an alarming detail in photos of her appearances at Paris Fashion Week. This week, the former journalist, ...

Today, the Council adopted the regulation on preventing the loss of plastic pellets into the environment, following a provisional agreement with the European Parliament. The new regulation aims to ...

ScottsMiracle-Gro continues to expand its partnership with Trex to recycle plastic film waste from its production operations. Soil bag trimmings and bags scrapped due to standard quality checks or ...

Seabirds and other marine wildlife are ingesting an increasing amount of plastics as pollution in the ocean rises. A recent study finds that sable shearwater chicks that consume high levels of ...

Straws might seem insignificant, inspiring jokes about the plastic vs. paper debate, but the plastic straw has come to symbolize a global pollution crisis over the past decade. On Monday, President ...

"I don't think plastic is going to affect a shark very much, as they're munching their way through the ocean," Trump reportedly said after signing the order Kimberlee Speakman is a digital writer at ...

President Trump signed an executive order directing the federal government to return to using plastic straws. “We’re going back to plastic straws,” he said, adding that paper straws “don’t work.” The ...