It involved a tiny plastic coffee spoon, a drug epidemic, and an eventual government crackdown. Before we learned just how awful single-use plastic was, the innocent-looking utensil was first ...

McDonald's and coffee have a long history. One smaller piece of that history is the fascinating reason McDonald's discontinued its coffee stirrers in the '70s.

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A BAN ON BAGS RIGHT NOW IN HARRISBURG. A STATE SENATOR IS PUSHING TO OUTLAW SINGLE USE PLASTIC BAGS AT RETAIL STORES ACROSS THE ENTIRE COMMONWEALTH. NEWS EIGHT’S MICHAEL FULLER IS HERE.

The hold-up? The packaging. Most deodorants on the market come in hard plastic cases with many tiny components, each of which is made of a different type of plastic, and most of which are not ...

The tiny pieces of plastic scientists call microplastics are everywhere. They sit at the bottom of the sea, mix into beach sand, and blow in the wind. They’re also inside us. Last October ...

New legislation is going to be introduced in Pennsylvania that is aimed at banning single-use plastic bags throughout the state. Single-use plastic bags have already been banned in Pittsburgh and ...

WAKO, Japan, June 4 (Reuters) - Researchers in Japan have developed a plastic that dissolves in seawater within hours, offering up a potential solution for a modern-day scourge polluting oceans ...

CalRecycle submitted informal draft regulations two weeks ago that are designed to implement Senate Bill 54 to reduce plastic waste. In a letter to Newsom and others, 23 state lawmakers said the ...

A "vintage" plastic straw is being sold for a whopping £10,000 in Norfolk. An eBay seller based in Dereham has listed an unopened McDonald's straw from 2016 for £10,086.72. The fast food ...

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