Gardening supports: The metal stakes from campaign signs are great for supporting tomato plants or creating DIY trellises in the garden. DIY projects: The corrugated plastic panels are sturdy and ...

Trump signs executive order on plastic drinking straws. By Reuters. February 11, 2025 3:58 PM UTC Updated February 11, 2025 WASHINGTON, Feb 10 (Reuters) - President Donald Trump on ...

But plastic straws are only a small part of the problem. The environment is littered with single-use plastic food and beverage containers — water bottles, takeout containers, coffee lids ...

In the weeks leading up to the final vote, hundreds on both sides of the issue provided hours of impassioned testimony to the Council. Mayor Kirk Caldwell signed a bill banning single-use plastic ...

AUGUSTA — Maine hotel rooms may no longer be stocked with small bottles of shampoo, conditioner and other toiletries if a proposal before lawmakers to ban the miniature plastic bottles gets enacted.

Plastic use in G20 countries is on course to nearly double by the middle of the century unless a comprehensive and legally binding global treaty to curb consumption is drawn up, according to ...

California governor Gavin Newsom on Wednesday announced that he has signed a law banning hotels from providing guests with the small, disposable plastic bottles containing personal-care products ...

President Obama signed a bill that prohibits the selling and distrubtion of microbeads – tiny plastic beads that can be found in many personal-care products. CNN values your feedback 1.

Hotels in the nation's most populous state will have to stop giving guests small plastic shampoo bottles under a new law set to take effect starting in 2023.

Nearly 63,000 small pieces of plastic were pulled from Toronto Harbour over six months last year — thanks to trash traps, according to research data released on Monday.

ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: For years, the oceans were filling up with plastic waste, but people couldn't figure out where it was coming from. Then research in 2015 showed that over half the waste was from ...