Plastics

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New Jersey becomes latest state to restrict single-use plastic cutlery at restaurants

Pennsylvania plastics company settles 'nurdles' pollution case for $2.6 million

People breathe in 100 times more microplastics than previously thought, new study finds

Your guide to recycling clothing, makeup, electronics, batteries and more in Philly

Philadelphia recycling

Chemicals in plastic food containers have been linked to preterm births; here's how to avoid them

Phthalates preterm birth

The King of Prussia Mall no longer will use plastic bags next year

Upper Merion Plastics

After year of enforced plastic bag ban, Philly residents are starting to use less paper bags, too

N.J. lawmaker considers amending state's single-use bag ban amid residents' grow piles of reusable bags

New Jersey Bag Ban

Wegmans to eliminate plastic bags at all of its Pennsylvania stores this month

Academy of Natural Sciences seeks to raise awareness about plastic pollution through art

Plastic Free Philly

Pregnant women increasingly at risk of being exposed to chemicals that may harm development

Prenatal exposure to harmful chemicals

Haverford Township bans plastic bags as more suburban towns begin to take action

Company worth $100 million which owns nothing more than a Paulsboro deli to merge with bioplastics firm

Paulsboro Deli Merger

New Jersey's single-use plastic ban starts with making straws by request only

Plastic Straw

Philly, suburbs sue Pennsylvania to defend their plastic bag bans

Paper, plastic bags to be banned in all stores across New Jersey

new jersey paper plastic bag ban

Plastic and paper bag ban passes the N.J. Senate and advances to legislature, again

Philadelphia passes ban on single-use plastic bags

Philly plastic ban

Camden County officials ban single-use plastics in county buildings

Pottstown is first in U.S. to test curbside recycling of bubble wrap, grocery bags, shrink wrap, more

RFlex recycling

Tea bags could be releasing billions of micro plastics into your cup of tea, study says

Tea bags micro plastics

Philadelphia City Council proposes plastic bag ban, 15-cent fee on all other bags

plastic shopping bag laws

Plastic bag ban in three Jersey Shore towns takes effect this weekend

Brigantine Jersey plastic bag ban

Whole Foods to eliminate plastic straws, cut down on single-use plastics at stores

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Trashy people are having more sex on the beach at the Jersey Shore

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While Philly considers plastic bag ban, here's how you can clean up

plastic shopping bag laws

Number of New Jersey towns banning plastic bags grows in 2019, more poised to join the crowd

plastic shopping bag laws

PA rum company offers incentive for you to ditch plastic straws altogether

Single Prop Rum

Your old contact lenses are contributing to microplastic pollution in our food

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Plastics may be causing penis defects, researchers say

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