MIDDLETOWN — For the past few years, we’ve been reminded how plastics, especially single-use plastics, are bad for the environment. They have trashed our oceans and killed wildlife. They are ...

By Waylon Cunningham May 20 (Reuters) - Starbucks' plastic single-use cups it often serves in U.S. cafes are not as recyclable as the company claims, an environmental nonprofit group said on Wednesday ...

SARANAC LAKE — How much plastic have you come into contact with today? “The key is that we’re producing a lot of plastic waste,” Michael Michael Trumbower, school programs coordinator for the Wild ...

California's long anticipated single-use plastic law is now in effect. Environmentalists and anti-waste activists are suing, ...

SINGLE-USE PLANET explores efforts to reduce the growing deluge of disposable plastic. Plastic is vital to our modern way of life—but not all forms of it. In search of why more single-use plastic ...

Watchdog group glued trackers to 53 of the chain’s cups across nine states and found none ended up at a recycling facility ...

SUNY's Elimination of Single-Use Plastics and Preference for Durable and Reusable Alternatives Policy, issued in March 2024, directs all campuses to eliminate purchases of plastic products designed ...

When announcing the closing of his company’s seed round of funding, LumiTerra (Lumi) co-founder and CEO Kevin Diamond said the company’s vision was to “challenge the status quo in disposable beverage ...

Two people stand in a laboratory in front of a closed fume hood; each is wearing goggles, a lab coat, and gloves and holds a box of nitrile rubber gloves. Evan Bailey and Caroline Gilmer were inspired ...