Plastics aren’t just cluttering beaches and jamming up recycling bins. They’re now a “grave, growing, and under-recognized danger” to human health, according to one of the world’s leading medical ...

Ridwell, and companies like it, offer to take complex plastic items you can't put in your blue bin and find a home for them.

How did toxic plastics become so pervasive? How do they endanger our health? And what can we do to address this crisis? Hear from Judith Enck, founder of Beyond Plastics. How did toxic plastics become ...

The Packaging Reduction and Recycling Infrastructure Act, known as PRRIA (S.1464/A.1749), targets larger companies, those over a set revenue threshold, and orders them to cut packaging by specific ...

The League of Women Voters of the Cooperstown Area will host a free, online webinar series “Beyond Plastic Pollution” at the Clark Sports Center Community Center from 7 to 9 p.m. Wednesdays beginning ...

The price of plastic: Corporate lobby outnumbers supporters for packaging waste reduction act 4 to -1 A new report by Beyond Plastics has found that corporate lobbyists opposing the New York Packaging ...

Talks aimed at a global treaty to cut plastic pollution fizzled in Geneva this week, with no agreement to meaningfully reduce the harms to human health and the environment that come with the millions ...

If there's one material that defines modern life more than any other, it's plastic: present from the moment we're born in newborn stool, in product packaging, in the soil beneath our feet and the air ...

In 1996 Captain Charles Moore, a citizen scientist and founder of the Algalita Marine Research and Education Foundation, stumbled upon what came to be known as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch -- a ...

Dr. Michael Ponting is Chief Scientific Officer at Peak Nano, a leading innovator in advanced capacitor films, specialty films, and optics. "One word: plastics." That single line from The Graduate ...