But efforts are underway to arm local and national officials with the data they need. UNEP and UN-Habitat, for example, have ...

Shrewsbury Town Meeting members banned plastic bags in 2017 by defeating a citizens petition to reverse a ban that Town Meeting approved in 2016. Special Town Meeting voted in 2018 to ban food ...

Plastic also commonly contains other chemicals that are endocrine disrupters and may impact fertility. Here are just a few of them: BPA: Bisphenol A (BPA) is an industrial chemical used in the ...

Harwich town meeting concluded on Tuesday night. Votes included two types of single-use plastics bans, fertilizer bans and a ...

While supporters say a bottle bill would clean up the environment and save communities money, critics say it would act like a ...

Consumer packaging dumps 19 million metric tons of plastic waste into the environment each year, according to the nonprofit ...

and all associated plastics from the general bylaws. The article was amended to no longer consider deleting a ban of single-use plastic water bottles. Harwich voters gather at the community center ...

The world generated an estimated 400 million tonnes of plastic waste last year. This torrent of water and shampoo bottles, dispensing containers ... No. Only about 9 per cent of plastics are actually ...

By channeling bottles, cans and plastics out of the ... Environmental groups like Save The Bay, the Audubon Society of Rhode Island and Clean Water Action say a 10-cent deposit on beverage ...

“Water bottles – not just bad for the planet, it could be in your brain,” he noted in a clip, which has racked up 23,000 views. He said plastic ... we are exposed to plastics in everyday ...