With the planet generating more than 2 billion tons of trash every year, a significant portion of it ends up in landfills or open dumpsites that create environmentally harmful methane gas as they decompose. The emissions generated in this process are comparable to those of the coal mining industry, pollution from which at least is…

Do plastic bag bans work? A new report found that some people living in a city or state with a single-use plastic bag ban may still carry their groceries back from the store in plastic. Environment America recently published a paper titled “Plastic Bag Bans Work.” The paper outlines the impacts of the bans throughout…

Not even the most remote part of our planet has been able to escape the latest pollution problem — microplastics. Researchers recently found the tiny plastic particles in fresh snow in Antarctica for the first time. Researchers from the University of Canterbury in New Zealand gathered snow samples from nearly 20 sites on the frozen…