Plastic Waste

Kyra Sedgwick, film actress and star of television's popular show The Closer, is using her famed communications skills to educate the public and world leaders about something that really upsets her: single-use plastics.

Tell the flight attendants you want just the can, no napkin, next time you need a shot of carbonated caffeine while in the air. Why use so many plastic cups, and what happens to them when the plane lands?

This year, President Obama issued an executive order to implement conservation-based management of our public seas, while marine researchers discovered an area in the Pacific containing 40 times more plastic than plankton.

The shocking amount of plastic waste that is funneled into our oceans often falls by the wayside when pit against other environment issues. The Surfri...

The Week Of Eating In is a time to make conscious decisions about your food, which is as much about what you don't eat as it is about what you do. Tha...

The average American consumes more than 600 bottles of soda or sparkling bottle a year, according to Grist columnist Umbra Fisk. Not to mention that 8...

You'd never know it just from looking, but the new bright orange schoolhouse in Granados, Guatemala has walls built with used plastic bottles--and so ...

As concerns mount over bottled water's impacts on the environment and human health, bottled water sales are beginning to dry up.

Daniel had a thought it seems even the most esteemed microbiology PhD's hadn't considered. Plastic, one of the most indestructible of manufactured mat...

Apart from an unexpected comeback of cod stocks in the Baltic Sea, it's hard to find good news about our oceans this year, and bottom trawlers and population pressures on Earth are not helping.

A huge percentage of our plastic problem could be addressed immediately, using simple, cost-effective, off-the-shelf technologies.