Plastic straws, Q-tips, and other single-use plastics are set to be banned in the UK as early as next year. The announcement has been made in the wake of more awareness of how our overuse of plastics ...

AMResorts, an Apple Leisure Group (ALG) company, has announced that it is completely eliminating the use of plastic straws across its seven resort brands. Effective immediately, staff at all 55 ...

Plastic straws, stirrers and q-tips will be banned in England starting in April of 2020, the government confirmed Wednesday. Environment officials estimated that 4.7 billion plastic straws, 316 ...

This is Explainer, a column that answers questions we all have (or should have). As someone who regularly “cleans” my ear canals with cotton swabs, a question hangs over me basically every day: How ...

For years we’ve all been using Q-Tips to burrow down in our ears and give them a good cleaning. But as it turns out, we’re ...

Steve Fletcher received advice from Laura Nieminen, Stephanie Northen and Keiron Roberts from the Global Plastics Policy Centre at the University of Portsmouth while writing this article. The flow of ...