It’s not news that our trash eventually finds its way to the ocean. Because oceans are downstream, litter will eventually find a pathway into our bodies of water if it’s not discarded properly—and ...

Preliminary data showed a total of 62,210 PPE items were collected during the International Coastal Cleanup event in September Joelle Goldstein is a Senior News Editor on the TV team for PEOPLE ...

A startling new phenomenon in the COVID-19 pandemic shows an alarming amount of personal protective equipment like rubber gloves and masks being discarded in parking lots. The trend comes as more and ...

Some local postal employees think safety measures taken by the U.S. Postal Service in response to anthrax-contaminated mail are an empty gesture. With anthrax-tainted letters leaving two postal ...

Malaysian firm Meditech Gloves will begin production of natural gloves that can biodegrade 100 times faster than synthetic, petroleum-based options KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 24 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – ...

WASHINGTON—Efforts are under way to dramatically increase rubber glove production on U.S. soil using the Defense Production Act, which traces its history to the Korean War and is inspired by efforts ...

Engineers have developed a method to use disposable personal protective equipment (PPE) to make concrete stronger, providing an innovative way to significantly reduce pandemic-generated waste. The ...

The first gloves came as a pair. When I saw them three months ago — crumpled blue against a bed of yellowish-green moss — I was hiking with my beagle and my partner at a scenic regional park in ...