Plastic bags start out as fossil fuels and end up as deadly waste in landfills and the ocean. Birds often mistake shredded plastic bags for food, filling their stomachs with toxic debris. For hungry ...

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Hilda with her improvised shopping bag Hilda is a form three student at Materi Girls in Tharaka Nithi With the ban on plastics on as from Monday, her photo carrying an eco-friendly bag made of ...

You've poured the kettle. The tea has brewed. Now how should you dispose of the teabag? The bin? The food waste? The compost heap? Other recycling? Landfill, up until recently, would have been the ...

Planet or Plastic? is National Geographic’s multiyear effort to raise awareness about the global plastic trash crisis. Come to this page often to learn more, and find out what you can do to ...

Morrisons insists there is no reason its paper bag cannot be reused as many times as the plastic one it is replacing, although it depends on how the bag is treated. Cotton bags, despite being the ...

Some supermarkets and retail stores have drop-off kiosks for plastic bags. If you have no other option, put the bags in your brown trash bin for pickup. Or bring them back to the store where you ...

there’s no one to collect the rubbish! Some plastic objects are only used once then thrown away. These are called single-use plastics. They include things such as plastic bags, bottles ...

Businesses with fewer than 15 employees had a separate minimum wage of $12.80 in 2023, but they will also be required to pay $15 an hour starting Monday. Although the federal minimum wage has held ...

(SACRAMENTO, Calif.) — “Paper or plastic” will no longer be a choice at grocery store checkout lines in California under a new law signed Sunday by Gov. Gavin Newsom that bans all plastic ...

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