A Look Inside How Hawaii's Plastic Bag Ban Came About
Hawaii becomes the first state in the union to enact a ban on plastic bags at checkout counters. Sierra Club looks into how it finally came into being.
Worlds oceans are plasticized.
A marine expedition of environmentalists has confirmed the bad news it feared: The "Great Pacific Garbage Patch" extends even further than previously known.
Whoops! There is way more plastic in the ocean than we thought.
The plastic on the surface, it turns out, is just a fragment of what’s in there. We might not be able to see it, but the 100 feet below the surface is swimming with trash.
Plastic Bags a Bigger Threat to India's Future Than Nuclear Weapons: Supreme Court Justices
Unless India comes to terms with its plastic pollution problem, its rise on the global stage may be stunted.
Plastic trash altering ocean habitats
A 100-fold upsurge in human-produced plastic garbage in the ocean is altering habitats in the marine environment, according to a new study.
Pacific Ocean has 100 times more plastic particles in it than 70s.
Thousands of miles off the coast of California, millions of tons of plastic make up the so-called "Great Pacific Garbage Patch". A new report estimates that particles of "microplastic"—pieces of plastic smaller than 5 mm in diameter—have increased by more than 100 times since the early 1970s.