New York puts tons of bagged trash on the curb daily. The city has a plan to contain the mess
For decades, New York residents have flung plastic garbage bags onto the sidewalk for pickup. The city is now requiring some ...
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Environmental policies like plastic bag bans at grocery stores can often backfire
The study revealed that the behaviors prompted by the plastic bag regulations persisted even after the rules were no longer ...
Rats feast on New York's City's bagged garbage. Can putting it in bins end the smorgasbord?
When the bags inevitably leak or break open, they spill litter into the street, providing smorgasbords for rats. In the ...
Trash Talk: How New York plans to manage it garbage problem
New York generates 20 million kgs of trash daily, making it a huge problem. Now, after almost half a century, the administration has come up with a solution to manage it — bins with lids ...
Millions of tons of plastic foul the world around us
On a Philippines beach, barefoot children jumped and played on shoals of plastic washed ashore in previous typhoons.
PHOTO COLLECTION: Plastic Pollution Treaty
- Nina Gomes recovers a discarded plastic bag from ocean waters, near Copacabana beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, March 19, ...
NYC Declares War on 'Rat Buffets', Trash to Go in Lidded Bins
For decades, New York City sidewalks have been notorious for their heaps of trash in plastic bags, a feeding ground for the ...
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5 Ways to Store Plastic Grocery Bags for Easy Reuse
Plastic grocery bags are no friend to the environment, but they're hard to avoid altogether. Plastic bags can’t be put to the ...
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Plastic bag bans can sometimes backfire: study
Policies aimed at curbing the use of single-use plastic bags have sometimes accomplished the opposite of their intentions, a ...