DAKAR, Senegal — On a beach in Senegal with so much plastic trash that much of the sand is covered, one man is trying to raise awareness about the dangers of plastics — by wearing many of the bags, cups and other junk that might just as soon be part of trash piles. Environmental activist Modou …
Didn’t we ban single-use plastic shopping bags in California? Yes — in 2014, though the law didn’t take effect until two years later because the plastic industry tried to overturn it on the 2016 ballot. But you can hardly tell from a trip to the grocery store, where there are still plenty of plastic bags …
Halloween treats have a tricky problem: plastic packaging that’s difficult to recycle. As America loaded up on an estimated 600 million pounds of candy for Halloween, a handful of companies tried to make it easier to recycle all those wrappers. But they acknowledge that their efforts only make a small dent and say more fundamental …
