As communities continue to celebrate Earth Day, a growing number of consumers are looking for simple ways to cut down on ...

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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 ...

More people are turning everyday waste into growing spaces by using recycled containers for home vegetable gardening, and it ...

Single-use plastic has always been a concern of Caitlin Broadbent, a sustainability technician at King’s College London. Each month, researchers in the institute’s Drosophila fly facilities discard ...

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It's just wrong to have shopping carts full of plastic. We can and must do a better job of ending our addiction to plastic.