The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is even bigger than we thought What’s 1.6 million square kilometers, weighs 80,000 metric tons, and is three times the size of continental France? That would be the Great Pacific Garbage Patch — the enormous collection of detritus that floats in the Pacific Ocean By Alastair Boone | News | March 29th 2018
The growing environmental pitch for ditching the straw This holiday season, cocktail hour could really suck for the straw industry. By Cassandra Szklarski | News, Politics | December 21st 2017