The numbers are staggering. According to one report, the world uses 500 billion plastic cups every year. It's estimated that 50 billion paper coffee cups are thrown away in the United States alone.

It doesn’t take an awful lot of investigating to see that we’re swimming in an ocean of waste: There are the maxed-out landfills, illegal trash dumping in the desert, choked-up rivers, strangled sea ...

Ten years after California approved a plastic bag ban that’s been blamed for making its plastic bag problem worse, the state is banning single-use plastic grocery bags entirely. In 2014, California ...

The can of chickpeas in the pantry has a "best by" date that passed two weeks ago. The loaf of bread on the countertop boasts a "sell by" date of today. And then there's the Manchego cheese in the ...

Sustainability: News about the rapidly growing climate tech sector and other areas of innovation to protect our planet. SEE MORE by Lisa Stiffler on Jun 9, 2025 at 3:00 am June 9, 2025 at 9:19 am ...

The owner of an unlicensed waste pit on a farm outside of Aurora argued that she had done nothing wrong and that the waste accepted for a fee from industrial vacuum excavation companies for about ...

September 9 - In 2015, world leaders promised to halve food waste by 2030. At the time, around one-third of global food production was being lost. Today, after a decade of campaigns, pledges and in ...

MINSK, 3 June (BelTA) - In a new episode of BelTA’s Nation Speaks project Olga Sazonova, Head of the Waste Management Department at the Belarusian Ministry of Natural Resources and Environmental ...