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New York is poised to take a significant step towards sustainability with its latest legislative effort aimed at reducing plastic waste.

Here you will find the top viral daily news, a synopsis of the stories, and links to each article to read the full story.

As plastic continues to fill landfills and oceans, city and state leaders are backing state legislation to curb it.

There's optimism that an expanded bottle bill may get a vote, as well as a measure that aims to reduce plastic packaging.

Pollster Steven Greenberg joins Capital Tonight.

For a decade now, the metal, glass and plastic that New Yorkers put in blue recycling bins at their homes for pickup by the Sanitation Department has been taken by truck or barge to the privately-run plant in Brooklyn on the Sunset Park waterfront operated by Sims on a long-term contract with the city.

Virtually all the plastic packaging that enters your life is designed to be used once, then discarded, a major reason why we have a waste-management crisis in New York. Legislators

A leading environmentalist says one of the goals of New York's proposed Packaging Reduction and Recycling Infrastructure Act is to end individually wrapped…

KINGSTON, N.Y. – Ulster County Executive Jen Metzger, an avid environmentalist, pushed Thursday for state lawmakers to pass a regulation that would require some companies to reduce plastic packaging in half during the next dozen years.Metzger was among officials participating in an online press conference to emphasize the importance of passing the Packaging Reduction and […]

"We know the world can only reach its greenhouse gas emission reduction goals by effectively addressing the environmental impact of plastic. If plastics were a country, it would be the fifth largest producer of greenhouse gases."