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REGIONAL – California recently became the first West Coast state to ban over-the-counter sales of home gardening products that contain a toxic chemical known to kill bees, birds and butterflies.
There's no escape from plastic. Look around your kitchen, walk around your favorite park or beach and you'll likely find yourself in the presence of plastic pollution. The United States produces enough plastic waste every 15 hours to fill Cowboys Stadium, the largest football stadium in the country. We eat about a credit card's worth of plastic every week because microplastics are so omnipresent in our environment. If our waste patterns continue, by 2050 the oceans could have more plastic than fish. How did it get this way? It's not because people have been clamoring for more plastic in ou...