As a species, our plastic consumption is pretty abysmal. We’ve reached record highs of plastic pollution, according to the EPA, contributing to landfills and waterways waste that will take hundreds of ...

Plastic pollution is a growing environmental crisis that threatens wildlife, marine ecosystems, and human health. With ...

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Microplastics are ubiquitous. Though you can’t see them with the naked eye, they’re found almost everywhere — in our food, our cleaning supplies and cosmetics, our water, the air we breathe — and ...

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 ...

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A recent study found a whole plastic spoon's worth of tiny plastic shards in human brain tissue. Pretty wild, right? Some researchers have estimated that people consume between 39,000 and 52,000 ...

As talks on a global treaty on plastic waste approach, an environmental group has found that only a handful of U.S. states are taking meaningful action to rein in the plastic waste that harms ocean ...

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