CORRECTION: This article has been edited to clarify where New York, Rhode Island and Maine's policies on plastic rings stand ... to do away with the six-pack rings that have become a symbol ...

About 48 million tons of plastic waste is generated in the U.S. each year; only 5 to 6 percent of it is actually ... Plastic production is set to triple by 2050, and with so much plastic waste ...

Some 220 million tonnes of plastic waste are set to be generated this year alone ... Worryingly, this amounts to a whopping 69.5 million tonnes of plastic that ends up in landfill.

I was on my way to see a man who would help me make sense of the whole mess we’ve made with plastic, especially in the ocean. After sheets of clear ... Of that, more than 6.9 billion tons ...

Planet or Plastic? is National Geographic’s multiyear effort to raise awareness about the global plastic trash crisis. Come to this page often to learn more, and find out what you can do to ...

Maddie McGarvey for The New York Times Supported by By Hiroko Tabuchi By 2025, Nestle promises not to use any plastic in its products that isn’t recyclable. By that same year, L’Oreal says all ...

April 4 (UPI) --The amount of plastic in Amazon packaging has grown 9.6% in the United States ... replaced single-use plastic packaging with 100% recyclable paper and cardboard.

Plastic bags start out as fossil fuels and end up as deadly waste in landfills and the ocean. Birds often mistake shredded plastic bags for food, filling their stomachs with toxic debris. For hungry ...

Senior Provincial Minister Marriyum Aurangzeb declared that the ban on plastic bags would be enforced throughout Punjab starting from June 6. She emphasized the importance of public awareness ...

“The inflation numbers were less than what economists anticipated at 3% (for the rolling 12 months ending June); the lower unemployment rate of 3.6% and the ... were up 9.5% in May, contributing ...

Elon Musk’s AI startup, X.ai, has revealed its latest generative AI model, Grok-1.5. Set to power social network X’s Grok chatbot in the not-so-distant future (“in the coming days,” per a ...

There are different tiers to ChatGPT. The one available for free, version 3.5, uses 175 billion parameters. Think of parameters as the number of pieces of information. The more parameters a model ...