A group of environmentalists and entrepreneurs working with the Rio+20 environmental summit have initiated a contest geared at collecting ideas for converting plastic waste into a way of making...
Scientists have recently found that companies avoiding the use of bisphenol-A in their paper products are now replacing the infamous chemical with a different one, bisphenol-S. Concern exists...
The city of Toronto, Canada currently levies a five cent fee on plastic bags at the supermarket, and according to Marina Strauss and Elizabeth Church of the Globe and Mail, the fee has been an...
In an unprecedented move for a large city, Los Angeles became the largest city in America to ban plastic bags at the checkout. The ban passed city council's vote 13-1, and was supported by a...
The Polaris Institute, according to Ban the Bottle.com, has recently found that bottled water is more than simply an unnessecary expense for the environment, it also creates financial hardship for...
India's most recent effort to enforce a plastic bag ban has begun to come into effect according to writer Shainu Mohan of the Deccan Chronicle. According to the article, a new hologram is...
