Plastics

From single-use plastics to product packaging, learn how and why to cut your daily plastic habit.

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Is Silicone a Safe Alternative to Single-Use Plastics?

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Compostable and "Biodegradable" Plastics Provide False Sense of Responsibility

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"The Story of Plastic" Is a Moving Film That Reveals Where Plastic Comes From – And Where It Goes

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Microplastics Inhibit a Hermit Crab's Ability to Choose Shell
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All About Vinyl: The Plastic Found in (Almost) Everything
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How Plastics Add to the Climate Crisis
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11 Easy Ways to Reduce Your Plastic Waste
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Could You Make a Plastic-Free Costume This Halloween?
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Oil Industry Is Spending Billions on Increasing Plastics Production
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16 Simple Ways to Reduce Plastic Waste
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Thicker Bags Don't Solve the Plastics Problem
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No Plastic 2020: The Reason I Am Giving Up All Plastic Bottles
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6 Household Items With Hidden Plastic
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How Our Thinking Changed in 2019: Recycling and Plastics
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The Big Awful Truth About Biodegradable Plastics
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I Almost Missed America Recycles Day!
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How Much Plastic Do You Consume Every Day?
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Vancouver Says No More Foam Food Containers
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Is Your Tea Steeped in Plastic?
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Biodegradable Plastic Is Bad for the Environment, British MPs Say
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It's Time to Ban Filters on Cigarettes
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World's First Recycled Plastic Bike Path Opens in the Netherlands
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4 Ways to Eat Less Plastic
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Avoid These Types of Disposable Packaging for Health Reasons
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10 Tips for Living With Less Plastic
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Humans Ingest at Least 50,000 Plastic Particles a Year
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Here's a Handy Guide to Plastics Recycling
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Get Ready for the Onslaught of "Smart Plastic Incineration"
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Want to Go Plastic-Free? Start With One Thing.
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How Did Our Periods Get So Full of Plastic?
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Most Plastics in Our Recycling Bins Aren't Getting Recycled, New Report Finds
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Solutions for Single-Use Plastic Pollution Must Consider All Stakeholders
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Our Love Affair With Single-Use Plastics Is Over
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31 Outside-The-Box Tips to Ditch Plastic
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Why Do We Drink So Much Bottled Water?
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Our Lives Have Been Co-Opted by the Convenience Industrial Complex
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Here's an Incredibly Simple Solution to Plastic Packaging Waste
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10 Plastic Items You Can Give Up Right Now
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The Poor Whales Can't Get Away From All Our Plastic Trash
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Is Plastic a 'Necessary Evil' in Our Food System?
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Here's What Happens to 'Biodegradable' Bags After 3 Years in Seawater or Soil
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So Much Plastic Is Being Made That "Recycling Has No Impact"
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Join the 'One Plastic Free Day' Campaign on June 5
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How the Plastics Industry Is Hijacking the Circular Economy
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The 'Attenborough Effect' Has Made People More Conscious About Plastic Use
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New Online Store Guarantees Plastic-Free, Low-Emission Shipping
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This Biodegradable, Edible Wrapper Could Replace Single-Use Plastics for Food
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Should Parents Buy Non-Plastic Toys for Their Kids?
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Festival-Goers Are Asked to Stop Abandoning Tents
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Plastic Invades the Once Pristine Waters of the Philippines (Photos)
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New Phox Water Filter Eliminates Disposable Plastic Cartridges
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Evian's Water Bubble: Hit or Miss?
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'Nude Shopping' Boosts Vegetable and Fruit Sales Dramatically
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How Dangerous Are Chemicals in Plastic Consumer Products?
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Plastic Particles Are Raining Down on Remote Areas
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The Alliance to End Plastic Waste Just Wants to Make More of It
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Plastic Is Toxic at Every Stage of Its Life Cycle
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Plastic Waste Is a Problem, but Wasting What the Plastic Is Wrapping Is Many Times Worse
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Ikea Kicks Single-Use Plastics to the Curb
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Single-Use Plastics Are Being Incinerated Instead of Recycled in the USA
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Oil Companies Have a New Strategy
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Get Ready for Pushback in the War on Plastic
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California (And the Whole World) Needs to Get Over Recycling
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Why We Can't Ban Plastic Straws Completely
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It's Time for the War on Balloons
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The Solution to Plastic Pollution Isn't Beach Clean-Ups, It's Companies Taking Responsibility
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To Get to a Circular Economy We Have to Change Not Just the Cup, but the Culture
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'Naming and Shaming' Is a Powerful Tool in the Fight Against Plastic Waste
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Wind Is Carrying Huge Amounts of Microplastic Dust Around the World
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Even Groundwater Is Contaminated With Microplastics
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First Came the Straw Wars. Next Up Are the Balloon Battles.
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The Biggest Source of Microplastics in Fresh Water Is Laundry Lint
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The Problems With Amsterdam's Plastic-Free Grocery Aisle
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Boy Discovers Microbe That Eats Plastic
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Mumbai Is Home to the World's Largest Beach Cleanup
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7 Times Grocers Went Overboard With Plastic Packaging
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The Missing Piece of the Plastic Debate
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Brita Takes Back the Filter
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Ticking Time Bomb: Plastics in the Ocean
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Australian Town Bans Bottled Water
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How One Man Built an Island of Plastic Bottles
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One Day Without Plastic. Can You Do It?
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Amateur Scuba Divers Train to Be "Ghost Net Busters"
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'Life Without Plastic: The Practical Step-By-Step Guide to Avoiding Plastic to Keep Your Family and the Planet Healthy' (Book Review)
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Straws Are So Passé. What Comes Next?
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Italians Are Balking at a New Produce Bag Fee
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'More Clay, Less Plastic' Movement Replaces Plastic Kitchen Tools With Natural Ones
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Seattle Fights for Sea Animals by Going Strawless for September
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Shipping Industry Cracks Down on Plastic Waste
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10 Creative Ways to Upcycle Your Plastic Bottles
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Where Has All the Plastic Pollution Gone in the Indian Ocean?
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Coral Becomes Diseased When It Tangles With Plastic
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Greenpeace Shows How Many Companies Are Failing to Ban Microbeads
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Why Balloon Releases Need to Stop
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6 Most Common Sources of Plastic Pollution
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Britain Gets Serious About Curbing Plastic Waste
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Plastic Bags Emit Methane, Too
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Why We Should Ban Glitter, Just Like We Banned Microbeads
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This Accidental Discovery Could Help Solve Our Plastic Pollution Crisis
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Chile Joins Worldwide Push to Ban Plastic Bags
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7 Smart Swaps That Will Get You Closer to a Plastic-Free Life
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10 Rivers May Deliver Bulk of Ocean Plastic
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If BPA Is So Terrible, Why Is Everybody Still Drinking Beer and Pop Out of BPA Lined Cans?
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The Least Interesting, Most Effective Way to Cut Plastic Pollution?
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A Beginner's Guide to Plastic-Free Living
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'Straws' Film Reveals How the Straw in Your Drink Is Hurting the World
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What You Can Do to Reduce Microfiber Pollution
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'Infinitely' Recyclable Polymer Could Be the Future of Plastics
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Shipwrecked Lego Provides Insights Into Ocean Plastic Movements
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Does Your Dental Floss Contain PFCs?
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There Might Be Microplastic in That Compost
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Sea Salt Contains an Alarming Amount of Microplastics
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5 Ways Plastic Straws May Be Bad for Your Body
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What Older Generations Can Teach Us About Plastic-Free Living
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Straw Bans Won't Fix the Plastic Problem, but Something Else Can
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How Crabs and Trees Could Soon Replace Plastic
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Will You Take Plastic With Your Tea?
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Now That China Won't Take Plastic Waste, What's the U.S. Doing?
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Can Ocean Plastic End Up in Seafood?
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93% of Bottled Water Tested in This Study Contained Microplastics
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Frozen Foods Can Be Packaging-Free Too
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10 Additional Tips for Living With Less Plastic
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How Seabins Use Marinas to Collect Trash and Clean the Ocean
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The One Thing Missing From Beach Cleanups
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The Ocean Cleanup Is About to Launch. Here's What It Faces.
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Indian Students Mail 20,000 Empty Food Wrappers to Manufacturers
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A Beginner's Guide to Plastic-Free Living: Part 2
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Never Wash Contact Lenses Down the Drain!
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Whale Made With 10,000 Lbs. Of Plastic Waste Emerges From Canal (Video)
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Microplastics in House Dust Rain Down on Our Food
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Avoid Plastic Food Containers for Better Health
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K-Cup Coffee Is Stupid
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9 Out of 10 Seabirds Have Eaten Plastic
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When You Refuse a Straw You Refuse Oil. And Vice Versa.
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Refuse -- The New 'R'
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Mariana Trench Contains 'Startling' Amounts of Plastic
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Recycling Waste Water Bottles Into Mission Critical Parts With 3D Printing (Video)
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The Great Lakes Are Filling Up With Plastic
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It's Easier Than Ever to Refuse Single-Use Plastics
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Australia Is All Choked Up With "Bag Rage" as Single-Use Plastic Bags Are Banned.
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Ask Pablo: Metal vs. Plastic Cutlery
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Mealworms Can Eat an All-Plastic Diet and Not Die
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What's Your Plastic Bag Fee Comfort Zone?
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Synthetic Fabrics and Car Tires Are Major Source of Microplastic Pollution
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The US Consumes 1500 Plastic Water Bottles Every Second, a Fact by Watershed
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Plastic Discovered at Bottom of Great Blue Hole
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Sorry, Ritz-Carlton, Plant Based Bottles for Water Are Not Green
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You Can't Ignore This Land Shark (Or the Conversation About Plastic in Our Oceans)
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How Much Plastic Enters the Ocean Every Year?
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California Gets Serious in the Fight Against Plastic Microfibers
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Ocean Plastic Is Like Smog, Not a Floating Island
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Ever Heard of the Powerful Balloon Council?
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How Many LEGO Skyscrapers Could Be Built From a Year's Worth of Ocean Plastic?
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This Is What a Year's Worth of Plastic Looks Like
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BP Predicts: Plastics Bans Will Slow Oil Demand Growth
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The Best Argument for Giving Up Cotton Swabs
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Are We Approaching Peak Oil Demand? Not if the Oil Industry Can Help It
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Plastic Bag Taxes Really Work
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26 Not-So-Fantastic Facts About Plastic
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SIGG Bottles Now BPA Free. But What Were They Before?
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Five Interesting Facts That Will Make You Stop Sucking!
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Will You Take the 'Plastic Free July' Pledge?
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Confusion Reigns Over Plant-Based Bottles, Which Is Exactly What Coke and Pepsi Want
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There's Plastic in Your Favorite Shellfish
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Extreme Athlete Tom Jones Paddleboards 1,500 Miles to Clean Up the Oceans
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Littering Is a Big Problem, but Who's Really to Blame?
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Become a Citizen of the Trash Isles to Protect Our Oceans
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Orange Peels Could Be Made Into Biodegradable Plastic
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Caterpillars That Eat Plastic Bags Discovered, Could Lead to Pollution Solution
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Why the 'Break Free From Plastic' Movement Is a Really Big Deal
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Plastic Eating Microbes to the Rescue: Evolution May Be Finding a Solution to the Problem of Plastic Waste
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Seabin: Floating Invention Filters Plastic Pollution Out of Marine Waters (Video)
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This Edible Water Blob Could Replace Plastic Bottles
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"A Plastic Tide" Film Depicts Shocking Plastic Pollution Worldwide
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Follow the Rubber Duck to See How Plastic Travels the Sea
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Pay for Your Subway Ride in Beijing by Recycling a Plastic Bottle
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Finally, the World Is Talking About Plastic Pollution
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'The Smog of the Sea' Is Jack Johnson's New Film About Plastic Pollution
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Today Is National Skip the Straw Day
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These 10 Rivers Likely the Source of Millions of Tons of Ocean Plastic
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Beverage Industry Needs to Tackle Plastic Problem Immediately
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Watch the Epic Journey of a Spoon (Video)
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You'll Never Want to Buy Synthetic Clothing After Watching 'The Story of Microfibers'
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Plastic Bank: How to Solve the Plastic Pollution Problem and Poverty at the Same Time
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Biodegradable Plastic: What You Need to Know
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The Arctic Is a 'Dead End' for Ocean Plastic
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Infographic: The Unbelievable Scale of Marine Trash
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Bottled & Sold: The Story Behind Our Obsession With Bottled Water (Book Review)
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Plastic-Eating Microbes Might Be Evolving in Our Oceans
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New 'Milk in a Bag' Solution Is Redundant if You Ask a Canadian
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Stop Plastic Microfiber Pollution With This Ingenious Laundry Bag
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Reefill Wants to Get New Yorkers Off Bottled Water. What's Wrong With This Picture?
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How to Banish Plastic Straws From Your Life Forever
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How to Choose and Use Plastic Wisely
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Why Amazon Go Should Be a No-Go: We Will Drown in a Sea of Plastic
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Where Does Ocean Plastic Come From?
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Why Baby Food Pouches Need to Go
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UK Celebrates First "Plastic Free Coastline" Community
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Synthetic Estrogen Contaminating Popular Plastic Packaging: Study
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Coral Thinks Plastic Is Delicious
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Ugh—5 Trillion Pieces of Plastic Are Floating in the Ocean
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Margaret Atwood Says We Need Another Reformation, This Time for Plastics
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North America's Bottled Water Addiction Comes at a Steep Price
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5 Gyres Seeks Crew Member to Help Document Plastic Pollution in the Ocean
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Plastic Packaging Is a Suffocating Barrier Between Food Growers and Eaters
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Queen Elizabeth Hates Single-Use Plastic Too
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On This Earth Day, Take Personal Responsibility to End Plastic Pollution
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Plastic in the Ocean: A Graphic Overview
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Canadian Water in Corn-Based Bottles
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TAP'dNY Bottles & Sells New York City Tap Water, in New York
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Celebrate Valentine's Day by Breaking Up ... With Plastic
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Are Corn-Based Better Than Petroleum-Based Plastics?
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8 Ways to Reduce Your Exposure to the Chemical BPA