Model making is a great hobby, but knowing how and where to start is another story. It can be overwhelming for novices: Injection-molded plastic models have been on the market for close to a century, ...

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Can the world finally agree on how to end plastic pollution? We should know by the end of the week. “Some countries are pre-emptively protecting themselves, regardless of what happens with the treaty, ...

People walking the streets of downtown Petaluma, California, started seeing something new on the sidewalks in summer. Alongside the usual trash cans and recycling containers were large purple bins ...

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Sophia Garcia’s favorite thing about Cal football games is talking trash — literally. The UC Berkeley sophomore works on the Cal Zero Waste staff, which launched an effort to swap out single-use cups ...

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Plastic is one of humanity's most useful inventions... and one of its most persistent problems. Plastic has become so ingrained in modern life that it's easy to forget how long it lingers once tossed ...