Plastic straws have become a worldwide icon of plastic pollution, frequently appearing on beaches alongside bottles, bags, and cups that volunteers tirelessly collect.
Environmentalists have highlighted an astonishing statistic: only in the United States, **500 million straws are used per...
The president of the United States, Donald Trump, signed an executive order ending the bans on plastic straws and announcing the elimination of the use of paper straws, adopted for ecological reasons in large cities, states, and companies.
The order...
New findings report strategies to clean rivers and reduce pollution and plastic waste disposal.
Plastic pollution is a growing problem in Japan, driving cleanup efforts to recover waterway waste. However, research on recovery rates in different river basins is still...
