Our brains are full of plastic. This was the fun news I read earlier this week while picking up dinner take-out, packed in plastic containers, crammed in a plastic bag and accompanied by Styrofoam ...

The supermarket Benny Super in Tokyo’s Adachi Ward has a bento and deli section, and customers can pick up plastic forks and spoons near cash registers. It will put up posters asking for ...

On a foggy morning in 2007, Rebecca Helm was strolling along California’s Monterey Bay, “picking up plastic like you do when you are in love with the ocean and want to protect it,” she recalls. Among ...

SARASOTA, Fla. (WFLA) — Sarasota City Commissioners voted 4-1 on Monday in favor of a plastic bag ban for yard waste pick-up. The ban goes into effect immediately; however, city officials told 8 ...

beach or public area in their respective communities to pick up plastic waste starting from 8am on July 8. True to the movement’s adventurous spirit, not even rain could dampen participants ...

And the biggest of them all is called the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. If you picked up each piece of plastic in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch you'd carry away about 1.8 trillion individual pieces.