Americans, on average, toss out about three quarters of a pound of plastic each day, according to researchers at Oxford University. Most of that trash winds up in a landfill. As someone who loves ...

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You know that little triangle with the number inside that you see on practically every plastic item you've ever touched? The ...

A new study shines a light on the enormous scale of uncollected rubbish and open burning of plastic waste in the first ever global plastics pollution inventory. Researchers used A.I. to model waste ...

In true January spirit, I've begun meal prepping. That's right, I'm officially one of those people, and I'm feeling just as smug about it as you'd imagine. The one surprising side effect I wasn't ...