A real chance to protect Florida’s environment from single-use plastics | Column

There is something uniquely captivating about Florida’s environment that draws you in and makes you want to stay. I felt this ...
SUNY Cortland

Single-use Plastics, what can be done?

Single-use plastics (SUPs) seem to be everywhere. Wrapped around our food, holding our iced coffee, at the buffet line as plates and utensils, stitched into our clothing, and even within our bodies as ...
The Baltimore Sun

Single-use plastics a serious environmental threat | READER COMMENTARY

Single-use plastics like drinking straws don’t dissolve over years. Instead, they gradually crumble into tiny pieces of debris. Imagine marine birds or your local birds mistaking these ...

Dubai confirms final phase of single-use plastics ban

Dubai has enforced the final stage of its phased single-use plastics ban, expanding regulated products to include plastic ...
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Nickel catalyst turns single-use plastics into oils at low heat, no sorting needed

Northwestern University chemists have developed a groundbreaking process that could simplify one of the world’s toughest environmental challenges: plastic recycling. Their new method skips the ...
WTAE-TV

Experts weigh environmental trade-offs of Pittsburgh's single-use plastic bag ban

ON. WTAE.COM. 1237 IS THE TIME ON THIS WEDNESDAY AND PITTSBURGH’S PLASTIC BAG BAN WAS IMPLEMENTED IN OCTOBER OF 2023 TO TACKLE ENVIRONMENTAL CONCERNS. IT HAS SPARKED BOTH PRAISE AND QUESTIONS ABOUT ...
Statesman Journal

Oregon could ban more single-use plastics, require washing machine filters

Senate Bill 551 would ban thicker "reusable" plastic bags and restrict single-use plastics in restaurants and hotels. Senate Bill 526 would require new washing machines to have microfiber filters to ...
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Point & counterpoint: Why we should ban single-use plastics — Aminah Taariq-Sidibe

For an opposing viewpoint, see "Single-use plastic bans are not effective" by Daren Bakst Plastics are woven into every aspect of our lives, but what was once the poster child for convenience is fast ...
University of California

How UC is phasing out single-use plastics

Sophia Garcia’s favorite thing about Cal football games is talking trash — literally. The UC Berkeley sophomore works on the Cal Zero Waste staff, which launched an effort to swap out single-use cups ...
Fox 5 San Diego

Coronado bans single-use plastics

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. CORONADO, Calif. (FOX 5/KUSI) — The Coronado ...
Post and Courier

Commentary: Why we should ban single-use plastics

Plastics are woven into every aspect of our lives, but what was once the poster child for convenience is fast becoming a pariah product. The era of single-use plastic must end; banning it is the only ...