You've probably grabbed a plastic bottle of water without thinking twice about it. Convenient, right? Refreshing. Maybe even ...

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Our world is increasingly plastic. Back in the 1950s, humanity produced just 5 million metric tons of plastic per year; today it’s 400 million metric tons. Since plastic can take hundreds or thousands ...

Each year, on our fruit-and-vegetable farm in New England, my family covers about a quarter of our 50 acres with plastic mulch. Rolls of it, five feet wide and 4,000 feet long, sit on a machine that ...

If you're focusing on your health this year, plate of microplastics might not be the first thing you think about when cooking. But these tiny plastic particles are everywhere -- in our water, in the ...