New plastic-reduction regulations in the City of Goleta have gone into effect Thursday, June 1. The ordinance, passed Sept. 6, 2022, is meant to reduce the amount of plastic pollution in the area by ...

Only about 5% of plastic is recycled, and much of the plastic waste we generate ends up in our waterways and oceans Since moving to England a few months ago, I’ve noticed the use of more stringent ...

185 investors with US$10 trillion in combined assets, coordinated by the Dutch Association of Investors for Sustainable Development (VBDO), have joined forces to call for more corporate action to ...

Kraft Heinz Co., home to some of the most well-known names in food products, wants to dramatically cut its use of virgin plastic in packaging. The company, headquartered in both Pittsburgh and Chicago ...

Cleaning products maker Defunkify did its part to reduce plastic waste in 2021, removing more than 41,000 pounds of that material from oceans and waterways. (Defunkify is a great name. It sounds like ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. During the second round of negotiations for a global plastics treaty in Paris this ...

The Berkeley, California-based nonprofit group that promotes shareholder advocacy, As You Sow, has announced that PepsiCo Inc., headquartered in Purchase, New York, has agreed to reduce its total ...

Although there's no doubt that marine plastic waste pollution is a major environmental problem, there may be at least a small sliver of hope. According to a new study, plastic trash on Australian ...

State Democrats are renewing their push for a measure that would reduce the amount of plastic big businesses use to package food and other products after falling short on the final day of last year’s ...

MIAMI BEACH, Fla. — Right now the world is pumping out a staggering 57 million tons of plastic pollution a year, and much of it winds up as litter that pollutes our oceans and waterways. But ...

The California legislature has made public the updated text of SB 54, or the Plastic Pollution Producer Responsibility Act, introduced by state Sen. Ben Allen. The landmark legislation calls for a 25 ...