A grassroots effort to let towns decide individually if they want to ban the sale of alcohol nips bottles is gaining momentum as the legislative session approaches. All they need now is a legislator ...

A video of a dog cleaning up litter from a polluted waterbody by retrieving a plastic bottle and disposing it of in a dustbin ...

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Of the top 10 types of trash they find, the only nonplastic item is glass bottles. Worldwide, 73 percent of beach litter is plastic: cigarette butts (the filters), bottles and caps, food wrappers ...

Scientists innovate with advanced catalysts and membranes to transform plastic waste into useful products and improve drinking water supply.

"It allows us to then say these work, and now there's other single use items that we're finding that we also want to see change to, things like drinks litter." Image caption, Plastic bottles are ...

We divided the bottles into two batches ... Mendoza et al, Industrial optical sorting for marine plastic litter management, Waste Management Bulletin (2024). DOI: 10.1016/j.wmb.

What are you up to today? CHILD: We're litter-picking. NAOMI: Great! You've done a good job there. What have you found? CHILD: I found this piece of a plastic bottle. CHILD: I found this plastic ...