This bank holiday, I swerved the busy beaches in favour of a lakeside spot that my hiking friends had raved about ...

More than 8 billion tons of plastic waste clog the planet. If stacked within Chicago’s Millennium Park, plastic dumped into ...

In 10 minutes, volunteers collected nearly 700 nurdles at Rotary Park in Carlsbad earlier this month. Nurdles are tiny, pre-production plastic pellets about the size of a lentil or a fish egg, and ...

Major sex toy companies have made numerous highly visible and vocal attempts to go green over the last decade-plus: As the industry woke up to the toxic effects of common toy materials, most makers ...

Out in the Pacific Ocean, between Hawaii and California, is the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, a swirl of plastic trash more than twice the size of Texas. As pieces of plastic tumble against each other, ...

Goodwill Industries of San Diego and Imperial Counties is expanding its sustainability efforts with a new program that allows residents to recycle soft plastics at select donation centers across San ...

Inflatable paddleboards are predictably appealing to people who love or want to try paddleboarding but live in small spaces or don’t have an SUV or truck to haul a ten-foot hardboard. Since the ...

A few lucky people will soon have a fashionable place to put their Diet Coke. Coca-Cola announced in an April 21 news release that it created what it calls "The Canny Pack," a fanny pack designed to ...

One species’ trash is another’s treasure. The Great Pacific Garbage Patch in the Pacific Ocean is now home to dozens of species, and the floating plastic island emphasizes how human civilization can ...

They say that the journey is more important than the destination—but I'd argue that packing for said journey is the most important part of all. I've been a travel editor for nearly a decade, bopping ...