American household garbage increases by 25% over the holidays, but it doesn't have to tax the area's stressed trash disposal ...

HELENA, Mont. — As Friday’s transmittal deadline looms in Helena, legislators are working furiously to advance general bills out of their respective chambers before it’s too late. In the House, the ...

Kristyna Wentz-Graff / OPB Restaurants, food carts and other vendors in Oregon would be banned from serving meals in plastic foam containers under a bill state Senators approved on Monday. Four years ...

As the new year turns over, laws regarding polystyrene foam bans and restrictions on hotel single-use plastic take effect in ...

WASHINGTON (KTVZ) – Senators Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley said Wednesday they have joined Senator Chris Van Hollen of Maryland to introduce legislation that would phase out single-use plastic foam food ...

On a summer Friday in Santa Cruz, a trio of surfers descended the sea stairs to the beach with waxed-up longboards under their arms. Stepping through seaweed on their way to the waves, they bantered ...

Grist is a nonprofit, independent media organization dedicated to telling stories of climate solutions and a just future. Oregon on Monday became the 10th state in the U.S. to ban polystyrene foam ...

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Washington — More than 50 lawmakers in Congress called for a national ban on expanded polystyrene foodservice products on Dec. 7, saying they wanted to build on similar plastic foam bans that have ...

This year, on International Coastal Cleanup Day last Saturday, volunteers around the world participated in the annual event by collecting and recording trash, cleaning up local beaches and producing ...

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