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Major tennis organizations and tournaments are committing to sustainable practices, including the reduction or elimination of single use plastics. Here are some highlights…

Changes needed are major but also practical and affordable, report says, and would bring trillions of dollars in benefits

Texas to New Jersey: Tracking the Toxic Chemicals in the Ohio Train Inferno – Tankers of vinyl chloride were going halfway across the country, government records show, a trip highlighting the risks of transporting chemicals as plastics production grows.

• What is the Green Campus Initiative? o Green Campus Initiative (GCI) is an Honors College organization dedicated to making Florida International University (FIU), and the greater state of Florida, more sustainable. Currently, GCI has been focused on the regulation of single-use plastics as they believe the time is now. At the university level, GCI works closely with faculty to implement sustainable initiatives related to reducing plastic waste. To accomplish their local and state-level goals, GCI works to expand their off-campus collaborations. o More and more countries, states, and cities have been implementing legislation regulating sin

North Atlantic right whales are dying faster than they can reproduce.

A ban on single-use plastic and paper bags in grocery stores had an unintended effect: Delivery services switched to heavy, reusable sacks — lots of them.

Starting May 4, 2022, New Jersey retail stores, grocery stores and food service businesses may not provide or sell single-use plastic carryout bags and polystyrene foam food service products. Single-use paper carryout bags are allowed to be provided or sold, except by grocery stores equal to or larger than 2500 square feet, which may only provide or sell reusable carryout bags. After November 4, 2021, plastic straws may be provided only upon the request of the customer.

Jerusalem artist collected plastic litter from beaches and parks in several countries, fashioning it into an installation for the World Trade Center.

Artist Tal Tenne Czaczkes made the sculpture for the Tel Aviv-Yafo municipality, which voted to outlaw single-use plastic on bathing beaches.

Jason Momoa made a very special trip this week from Los Angeles to Hawaii on Hawaiian Airlines to celebrate the airline’s partnership with his water company Mananalu.