plastic
Pua Lay Peng lives on the front lines of the global plastic pollution crisis. The 52-year-old’s hometown of Jenjarom, Malaysia has been transformed in recent years by thousands of tons of imported plastic waste from the U.S. and other wealthy nations. As a result, the once quiet agricultural town she grew up in is now […]
We’ve long known that plastic is bad for the environment. Ben Addelman and Ziya Tong’s movie documents what it’s doing to our bodies. “Plastic People” is one of those essential state-of-our-world documentaries. If and when it gets a release (it premiered this week at SXSW), I urge you to . . .
Before Kaitlin Armstrong was found guilty of killing professional gravel cyclist Anna Moriah “Mo” Wilson, she was on the run in Costa Rica from the murder charge. A few days after Wilson was murdered on May 11, 2022 . . .
It is not clear how the 35-year-old died. (Representative pic) A US woman who had been missing since June was found wrapped in plastic and stuffed inside her boyfriend’s refrigerator on Sunday. According to The New York Post, 35-year-old Heather Schwab was reported missing by her estranged mother, who told the cops that she hadn’t […]
By Nicole Lyn Pesce McDonald’s plastic trick-or-treat buckets were a seasonal staple for decades, and now Burger King is giving them a run for their money as Americans open their wallets for Halloween The burger chain wars are heating up this Halloween. McDonald’s (MCD) is bringing its “Boo Buckets . . .
CNN — Pennsylvania Park Manager Sarah Lindgren is no stranger to wildlife, so when she saw a bear cub in distress, she knew exactly what to do.
Environmental campaigners have called on the government to learn from its own successes after official figures showed the use of single-use supermarket plastic bags had fallen 98% since retailers in England began charging for them in 2015. From a report: Annual distribution of plastic carrier bags by seven leading grocery chains plummeted from 7.6bn in […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. (WHNT) — The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced ready-to-eat sausage links sold by Johnsonville are being recalled due to a possible foreign matter contamination. Officials say 42,062 pounds of “Beddar with Cheddar” pork sausage links are affected by the recall, which was announced after one . […]
FILE – Charles McCaskill, 68, calls out his thanks to members of the Mississippi Students Water Crisis Advocacy team who delivered two cases of water to his south Jackson, Miss., home, on Sept . 7, 2022. Jackson residents have a longstanding distrust of the water system because of frequent notices that the water must be […]
Two years ago, the United States Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale presented a backward glance, examining the softwood framing technique that transformed building construction in the 19th century. For this year’s show, the 18th edition of the Architecture Biennale, the pavilion’s exhibition looks at the material of the future (in . . .