This morning's post regarding the media's discussion of the U.S. attorneys scandal produced several revealing responses and some additional relevant evidence.

New legislation hopes to cut down on the extreme amount of waste due to single-use plastic

In our research on sustainability, the public often fails to understand waste management

Oregon's Department of Environmental Quality is concerned about environmental fallout from the frequent gassing

Decades of messaging urging us to recycle crowded out other options — like consuming less in the first place

Researchers worry that microplastics may be messing with an important carbon sequestration process

Focusing solely on plastic pollution ignores the myriad problems — from algae to pollution — that plague our lakes

Malaysia says it will send back some 3,300 tons of nonrecyclable plastic waste to the US, UK, Canada and Australia

Since China banned trash imports, Malaysia has become a new "dumping site" for developed countries.

The link between fracking and the bottled water industry is one more reason to take back the tap

In a seemingly organized smear campaign, right-wing trolls are claiming Wiley’s past work is racially insensitive

A network of groups backed by the plastics industry falsely claims polypropylene containers are “widely recyclable"

Consumer habits aren’t enough to curb the impacts of food waste

Experts say PPE should be liquefied into "renewable" fossil fuels and burned

Krill populations are plummeting due to warming waters, which leaves fur seals without meals