Tens of millions of tonnes of plastic enter the Earth's oceans every year. Fishing line, bottles, bags, wrappers. It all spreads through ocean currents to land far from where it was dropped.

If you have a black spatula in your kitchen, or other black plastic items around your house like takeout containers or children’s toys, they could contain high levels of toxic flame retardants.

Soft plastics are one of the most versatile and effective lure varieties for targeting inshore saltwater fish. Available in diverse sizes, colors and configurations, these lures allow you to match ...

Produced by ElevenLabs and News Over Audio (NOA) using AI narration. For the past several years, I’ve been telling my friends what I’m going to tell you: Throw out your black plastic spatula.

Alternatives to petrochemical-based plastics are emerging, made from everything from banana leaves to tomato skins, especially for food packaging. But questions remain about how biodegradable and ...

Clean soft dry plastics can be accepted. Only hard Styrofoam products bearing a “#6” symbol will be accepted such as all size coolers, meat and produce trays, egg cartons, plates & cups, food clam ...

Countries gathered in Colombia to work on a treaty to end plastic pollution must strive for “an ambitious, credible and just” deal that responds to the needs of communities everywhere, including some ...

Any moldy soft cheese needs to be immediately discarded, as the mold can spread beneath the ... To keep it fresh longer, avoid using the plastic wrap the cheese comes in from the store.

They join about 3,500 households in Frome that have already recycled approximately 27 tonnes of soft plastic waste - equal to roughly 95,000 bags - since the scheme was introduced there in May 2023.

Polling shows environmental issues are far from the top of voters’ minds this year, and the global plastics crisis rarely gets a mention—unless it’s to defend plastic straws. Nevertheless ...

This is exemplified by the story of Michael Doyle, a man from the Eurobodalla Shire who has installed a bin in his own front yard in Potato Point to collect locals’ soft plastics to be recycled, ...