Efforts to curb plastic waste in the United States are accelerating, with a growing number of cities and municipalities enacting bans on the sale of single-use plastic water bottles. These localized ...

The state government has banned the use of PET plastic bottles (up to 500 ml ... boards and corporations. Director, Environment, Science and Technology, DC Rana said... The Tribune, now published ...

Alternatives such as aluminum bottles of water are very expensive, and they have a larger environmental footprint than plastic bottles,” he said. Boxed water cartons are not easily recyclable, Thorp ...

Still, North Carolina is among dozens of states that have mandatory recycling requirements, The Charlotte Observer previously ...

South Lake Tahoe, a city around the lake, banned single-use plastic water bottles less than one gallon in 2024. Keep Tahoe Blue, an environmental advocacy nonprofit, celebrated the passage of the ...

Much of the U.S. uses single-stream recycling, where plastic, glass and paper go into one bin. Here’s what happens to that ...

Director, Environment ... bottles, water dispensers/kiosks of steel containers. He added that all the government organizations would carry out IEC activities to discourage the use of small plastic ...

According to data from the UN Environment ... plastic bottles are purchased every minute worldwide, with a significant portion ending up in landfills or oceans. Portable and reusable water bottles ...