As a New Yorker, the one piece of garbage that I am most likely to acquire and then throw into an overstuffed landfill is a paper coffee cup, with its ubiquitous plastic lid[...]

  Americans produce more than 76 million tons of packaging waste every year, and food packaging is a big part of that. Recycling packaging picks like plastic bottles, glass ja[...]

"We can’t prevent terrible events like the tsunami, but dumping plastic into the ocean is something we can control and don’t do very well." [...]