A wooded area near Anderson Park in Normal is littered with plastic waste on April 22, 2025. Walling expects the statewide bills to take about five years to take effect. And Illinois' large oil and ...

The reason: Black plastic cannot be recycled. “The reason is that the machine that sorts the recycling is looking at the plastics on a conveyor belt, and it cannot tell the difference between a black ...

Dozens of vendors transformed 75th Street and King Drive into Chicago's "Black Wall Street" on Saturday. Dubbed "Bullseye: ...

“People are seeing me in a different light, which is what I really wanted out of the choices that I made. In hindsight when I think about it, I was actually carving and building up my roots as ...

like for pieces of plastic, just everybody think about that,” she said. The Lego Group, the makers of Lego, did not respond to requests for comment about the black market for its products.

At most places Melissa Valliant goes when dining out, she carries in her backpack a set of reusable flatware — prepared to refuse the disposable utensils she says are part of the plastic ...

A bill aimed at protecting the watersheds of Lake Tahoe by banning the sale of plastic water bottles in the basin is moving forward in the Nevada Legislature. Senate Bill 324, sponsored by senator ...

As they approached their driveway at approximately 10 p.m. Paul and Debbie were greeted by a large black bear hugging a tree on their front lawn. With the headlights from their car serving more ...

During his presentation, the lecturer prompted him to expand on a point, and that’s when it began: "That Black African girl…" he said, gesturing to a colleague. The first time, we blinked.