For instance, a plastic bag from the grocery store can take up to 20 years to decompose. A plastic straw can take 200 years to decompose. A plastic water bottle? 450 years. It can be difficult to ...

Metro Detroit grocery stores, including Ferndale's Western Market, are reducing plastic bag usage to support environmental ...

"There is no officially established 'safe' or 'unsafe' level of microplastic intake. It makes sense to want your exposure to ...

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 ...

Now, some state lawmakers want to allow a return to paper bags at the grocery checkout, provided the bags contain at least 40 ...

From your clothing to the water you drink, being mindful of microplastics can help reduce your exposure and health risk.

Corn chip bags are their first target. Polymateria, a British firm, is taking a different approach, developing chemical additives to help biodegrade any plastic—bio based or synthetic—more ...

The bags are partially made from environmentally ... container use in 2030 by 30% compared to 2017 levels. "Plastic doesn't decompose easily and harms the environment," says Sugiki Soya, a Lawson ...

A plastic bag can take hundreds of years to decompose. If plastic ends up in rivers, lakes, seas and oceans, it can do a lot of harm, as wildlife can get tangled in it, or mistake it for food!