Research has revealed the shocking steps workers - from posties to train drivers - are having to resort to because of a ...

While photos of littered beaches and floating garbage patches are unsettling, perhaps the most problematic plastic is barely ...

Considering, as the Plastic Soup Foundation reminds us, that just 9% of all the plastic produced since the 1950s has been ...

Before collaborating with Sway, Prana had already eliminated plastic polybags in favor of recycled pulp-based paper bags. But ...

Traditional clothing does not let the body’s IR radiation escape. In fact, most materials are not transparent to IR, ...

If you store smaller electronics in plastic bins, toss in a few moisture-absorbing desiccant packets, and be sure to remove ...

Dear Heloise: We like to save plastic shopping bags to use for a variety of things, but storing them was an issue. We started folding them and putting them in empty paper towel rolls. It works ...

The interim government has taken a hard line against the use of polythene. But what’s the alternative to polythene?

The Huon Valley Council is facing an unexpected expense of $30,000 this year due to increased contamination in recycling bins ...

Tens of millions of tonnes of plastic enter the Earth's oceans every year. Fishing line, bottles, bags, wrappers. It all spreads through ocean currents to land far from where it was dropped.

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