The image of a sea creature entangled in plastic is not new, but it never fails to prompt a visceral response from the audience — a mix of guilt and helplessness in the face of a plastic crisis ...

In the public’s mind, and to many governments and industry groups, recycling happens any time a used product is refashioned into something new. It’s this definition that allows so many T-shirts, tote ...

Cedar Rapids Jefferson’s boys’ basketball team found itself down 21 points to Cedar Rapids Washington in the second half and ...

The three artists-in-residents for this year’s fair have created works that reference their connection to the natural world and their own regions ...

This is not the first case linking plastics with the deepest parts of the ocean. Explorer makes alarming find while attempting to break a world record in the ocean: 'A rather disheartening discovery' ...

In the developing world, plastic waste is clogging beaches and rivers ... for goods that are hard to break down, like candy wrappers. Recycling plastic can be expensive and polluting, and some ...

The University does bale and sell cardboard directly to paper mills, Environmental Services Director Bill Nelligan wrote to The Argus. When the University first purchased balers in 2013, they received ...

waste management facilities have an incentive for their collection and processing. However, candy wrappers are usually made up of mixed materials, making the recovery of useful materials difficult and ...