Plastic bag bans may not be the best way to keep plastics out of the ocean, argues Todd Myers. Jay Karr Island Packet We don’t want plastic in the ocean. Most plastic degrades slowly ...

It would ban thicker plastic bags and require single-use utensils and condiments be provided only by request. New restrictions on single-use plastic could be coming to retail stores, restaurants ...

Microplastics have been found almost everywhere that scientists have looked for them. Now these bits of plastic -- from 1 to 62 micrometers long -- have been found in the filtered solutions used for ...

Les Winwood had served as a Conservative councillor for 39 years [Shropshire Council] A Conservative councillor died from suffocation after placing a plastic bag over his head and tying himself to ...

New Mexicans use at least 330 million plastic bags every year, according to the state Environment Department and New Mexico Recycling Coalition, but they don’t always throw them away properly.

If you purchase tablets which are sealed, the Pharmacist puts it into a plastic bag. Formerly, if you wanted tablets such as Panadol or multivitamins, a gentleman would put it in his pocket and ...

The researchers estimate that thousands of plastic particles could be delivered directly to a person's bloodstream from a single 8.4-ounce (250-milliliter) bag of infusion fluid. In clinical ...